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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introductory 

Officers of the Society, 1894 

Committee on Celebration, 

Sub-Committees, 

Afternoon Reception, . 

Evening Exercises — Programme 

Prayer by Rev. Dr. Chambers, . 

Historical Address by Samuel S. Purple, M. D 

Letter from Henry R. Styles, M. D. 

Address by Edward F. De Lancey, 

Address by Gen. George S. Greene, 

Address by Henry T. Drowne, . 

Address by Hon. A. T. Clearwater, 

Anniversary Address by Gen. A. W. Greely 

Certificate of Incorporation, 

By-Laws, 

Officers and Committees, 1895. 
Officers and Trustees, 1869-1895 
Committees, 1869-1895, . 
Roll of Membership, 1869-1805, 
Index of Me.mbers, 



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VII. 
VIII. 
IX. 
X. 
XI. 

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INTRODUCTORY. 



A Society which successfully passes through twenty-five years of existence is in 
a position to congratulate itself and to be congratulated by its friends, and the 
attainment of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation is a proper subject 
of celebration. 

So thought the members of the New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Society, and at a meeting called in the summer of 1893, ^ committee was appointed 
to prepare a programme for the anniversary celebration to be held on the 27th day of 
February, 1894, the Society having been formed on that date in 1869. At a meeting 
of this committee in October a sub-committee was appointed to consider and report 
upon the plan and scope of the celebration. Its report was unanimously adopted by 
the general committee, and in accordance with its recommendations, it was decided 
to give a reception in the rooms of the Society on the afternoon of the Anniversary 
Day, under the supervision of a committee of the lady members of the Society, and 
to hold a public meeting in the evening at the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre. An 
executive committee, and committees on finance, on speakers, on programme and 
exercises, on printing and invitations and on reception and rooms were appointed 
and the best energies of all the members of these committees and of the general 
committee were enlisted to make the celebration a success. Dr. Samuel S. Purple, 
one of the earliest and most honored members, was unanimously chosen to prepare a 
historical sketch of the Society. General Adolphus W. Greely, U. S. A., Chief 
Signal Officer of the United States Government, whose labors in Arctic exploration 
have given him world-wide fame and who is an enthusiastic genealogist, accepted an 
invitation to deliver the anniversary address, and Judge Alphonso T. Clearwater of 
Kingston, N. Y., a member of the Society, was also invited to speak. 

These addresses, with a prayer by the Rev. Talbot W. Chambers, D.D., Senior 
Pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of the City of New York, and short 
speeches by the ex-Presidents of the Society, should, it was decided, comprise the 
exercises of the evening. 

Invitations to both the reception and the evening meeting were sent to all the 
genealogical and historical organizations throughout the country, and many responses 
were received congratulating the Society on its successful career and wishing it 
"many happy returns of the day." 

The attendance at the reception and at the evening meeting was gratifyingly 
large and indicated how greatly the interest is genealogical research is increasing ; 
and the Society started on its second quarter-century with every assurance of 
continued usefulness and prosperity. 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 

1894. 



President, 

First Vice-President, 

Second Vice-President, 

Recording Secretary, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Treasurer, 

Librarian, 

Register of Pedigrees, 



James Grant Wilson. 

- Samuel S. Purple. 
RuFus King. 

- Thomas G. Evans. 
Newland Maynard. 

- William P. Ketchaim. 
Richard H. Greene. 

- Rowland Pell. 



Executive Committee. 



Ellsworth Eliot, Chairman. 

Isaac Townsend Smith, William G. Ver Planck, 

Philip R. Voorhees. 



Ipublfcation Committee. 



Thomas G. Evans, Chairman. 



Beverly R. Betts, 
Edward F. DeLancey, 



Edmund A. Hurry, 
Samuel S. Purple. 



Committee on JSiograpoical JSibliograpb?. 



Henry T. Drowne, Chairman. 



Theodore M. Banta, 



Theophylact B. Bleecker. 



Class of 1895. 

Thomas C. Cornell, 
Henry T. Drowne, 
Frederic D. Thompson, 



Boar6 of "Crustees. 

Class of i8q6. 

Samuel Burhans, Jr., 
Edmund A. Hurry, 
James J. Goodwin, 



Class of 1897. 

Richard H. Greene, 
Samuel S. Purple, 
James Grant Wilson. 



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COnniTTEE ON CELEBRATION. 



Samuel S. Purple, Chairman. 



Samuel Burhans, Jr., Treasurer. 



Edmund S. F. Arnold, 
Theophvlact B. Bleecker, 
Gilbert S. Coddington, 
Thomas C. Cornell, 
S. Victor Constant, 
Edward F. De Lancev, 
Henry T. Drowne, 
Ellsworth Eliot, 
Thomas G. Evans, ex-oficio, 
James J. Goodwin, 
Gabriel Grant, 
George S. Greene, 
William F. Holcombe, 



Richard H. Greene, Secretary. 



Edmund A. Hurry, 
Williaji p. Ketcha.m, ex-officio, 
RuFUS King, 
Charles L. Lamberton, 
Herbert D. Lloyd, 
J. PiERPONT Morgan, 
HowLAND Pell, 
John V. L. Pruyn, 
josiah c. pumpelly, 
Frederic D. Thompson, 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
A. Van Wyck Van Vechten, 
James Grant Wilson, ex-officio. 
Tobias A. Wright. 



JEjecutive Committee. 

Samuel S. Purple, Chairman. 
Richard H. Greene, Secretary. 



Samuel Burhans, Jr., 
Ellsworth Eliot, 



Charles L. Lamberton, 
Rowland Pell, 



Josiah C. Pumpelly. 



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SUB=COMMITTEES. 



plan an5 Scope. 

Charles L. Lamberton, Chairman. 
John V. L. Pruyn. A. Van Wyck Van Vechten. 

Jfinance. 

Samuel Burhans, Jr., Chairman. 

James J. Goodwin, J. Pierpont Morgan, 

Cornelius Vanderbilt. 



B^rogramme an6 Ejercises. 

Josiah C. Pumpelly, Chairman. 

Edmund S. F. Arnold, Thomas C. Cornell, 

Gilbert S. Coddington, George S. Greene, 

RuFus King. 



IPrinting an5 Unvitations. 

Rowland Pell, Chairman. 

S. Victor Constant, Frederic D. Thompson, 

Tobias A. Wright. 



IReceptton anC> IRooms. 

Ellsworth Eliot, Chairman. 

Theophylact B. Bleecker, Henry T. Drowne, 

Herbert D. Lloyd. 

Speal?ers. 

Samuel S. Purple, Chairman. 
Thomas G. Evans, Richard H. Greene, 

Gabriel Grant, James Grant Wilson. 

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AFTERNOON RECEPTION 



In the Rooms of the Society, 23 West 44TH Street. 



From 4 to 5.30 o'clock. 



IReceptton Committee. 



Miss Elizabeth Clarkson Jay, 



Miss Lucy Du Bois Akerly, 

Mrs. Henry Baetjer, 

Mrs. Charles Avery Doremus, 

Mrs. Ferdinand Pinney Earl, 

Mrs. Henry Herrman, 

Mrs. James Marsland Lawton, 

Mrs. De Witt Clinton Mather, 

Miss Margaret Morris Norwood, 

Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Owen, 

Miss Mary Close Purple, 



Mrs. Sylvanus Reed, 

Mrs. John Stanton, 

Mrs. Edwin Augustus Stevens, 

Miss Bessie Thayer Sypher, 

Mrs. Gamaliel Cyrus St. John, 

Mrs. Lucas Elmendorf Schoonmaker, 

Mrs. Howard Townsend, 

Miss Mary Mildred Williams, 

Mrs. Mansfield Tracy Walworth, 

Mrs. William Hopkins Young. 



Mrs. John Augustus di Zerega. 



EVENING EXERCISES. 

Berkeley Lyceum Theatre, 19 West 44TH Street. 
8.15 o'clock. 



O VER TURE—Cd.rmm—Bizel. 
PRAYER, - - Rev. Talbot W. Chambers, D. D., L.L. D. 

SELECTION— 1.3. Str^nd\a.—Moszkowski. 
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SOCIETY, - Samuel S. Purple, M. D. 

ROMANZA—"0 Promise Ue^\"—De Koven. 
LETTER OF GREETING, - - Henry R. Stiles, M. D. 

ADDRESS, .... Mr. Edward F. De Lancey. 

WAL rZ— Espana— Waldteufel. 
ADDRESS, .... Gen. George S. Greene. 

ADDRESS, .... Mr. Henry T. Drowne 

SELECTION— TV^ Fencing Master— Z»^ A'(?w«. 
ADDRESS, - - - Hon. Alphonso T. Clearuater. 

POT POURRI—Orphens—OJenhach. 

ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS, - - Gen. Adolphus W. Greely. 

MARCH— \y?iS\\'mgxon Vosl—Sousa. 



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THE ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. 



The officers and trustees of the Society and the invited guests, among whom were gentlemen 
representing many kindred organizations throughout the country, assembled in the library at half 
past seven o'clock on the evening of the Anniversary Day, and at half past eight o'clock proceeded 
to the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre, in the building adjoining, and took seats upon the stage, the 
large audience which awaited them there having, in the meantime, been entertained by music from 
Stub's orchestra. 

Dr. Purple, the chairman of the general committee, having announced the programme of the 
evening, called upon the Rev. Talbot W. Chambers, D. D., to invoke the Divine blessing upon the 
Society and its work, after which Gen. James Grant Wilson, the president of the Society, took the 
chair and introduced the speakers. 



PRAYER BY REV. DR. CHAMBERS. 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Thou art the King im- 
mortal, eternal, invisible, the only wise God. Thou art the Father 
of Light, in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of 
turning; from whom cometh every good and perfect gift. We 
bless Thee for the abundance of Thy mercies unto us. We thank 
Thee for life and health and reason, for home and country and 
friends, and for the blessings of a Christian civilization. Help us 
to make suitable return unto Thee for Thy constant and varied 
goodness unto us. We pray for thy blessing to rest upon the 
Society which this night celebrates the completion of twenty-five 
years of its existence. We thank Thee for the favor which Thou 
hast shown to it during the past qiiarter of a century ; for the 
friends Thou hast raised up for it; for the degree in which Thou 
hast prospered its honorable and praiseworthy labors in recalling 
the past and transmitting its glories and its privileges to genera- 
tions to come. Thou hast told us in Thy Word that the fathers 
are the glory of their children. Help us to bear in mind the 
teachings of Thy Holy Word, to recall the past, to cherish the 



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memory of -what Thou hast done in tlie years that are gone; that 
we may imitate the virtues of our forefathers, and sliun their fail- 
ings, and so fulfil the purposes for which we were brought into 
existence. Be pleased to attend the exercises on this occasion 
with Thy favor and Thy blessing. Direct all that shall be said 
or done and cause it to inure to the welfare of this institution, 
that it may gain further friends in the time to come, and still 
more fully accomplish the praiseworthy object for which it was 
founded. Look upon us in mercy as we are before Thee. Forgive 
all our sins and accept us in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to 
whom be all glory, now and forever. Amen. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY SAMUEL S. PURPLE, M.D. 

The duty has been assigned to me to outline brietiy the his- 
tory and work of the New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Society, whose twenty-fifth anniversary we this day celebrate. 

On the evening of the twenty-seventh day of February, 1869, 
seven gentlemen, interested to a greater or less degree in genea- 
logical history, on the invitation of Dr. David Parsons Holton, 
assembled at his residence. After the Rev. Edmond F. Slafter 
had presented the plan, scope and progress of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society, which was organized in Boston in 
184.5, and of which he was then the corresponding secretary, it 
was determined that an effort should be made to establish a simi- 
lar society in this city, for the State of New York. 

After a free interchange of opinions, a committee was appoint- 
ed to prepare a certificate of incorporation, and on the twenty- 
sixth of March, 1869, it was filed in the office of the Secretary of 
State at Albany, N. Y. The trustees mentioned in this certificate 
met on the twenty-fourth day of April, and elected the officers of 
the Society. For the next ten weeks, the meetings of the Society 
were held at the residence of one of the members. The first 
quarterly meeting of the Society was held in Mott Memorial Hall, 
64 Madison Avenue, on the seventh day of July, 1869. A com- 
mittee had previously been appointed to i:)repare a seal for the 
Society, and on the eighth day of May. 1869, it was adopted by 
the Board of Trustees whose names are mentioned in the act of 



Address by Dr. Purple. 3 

incorporation. The objects contemplated, as announced, were to 
collect, preserve, and print when practicable, the scattered records 
of the early inhabitants of the colony of New Netherland, and 
Province and State of New York ; to preserve the pedigrees of 
their families, and, as far as possible, those of other families. 

These results could only be accomplished by the preservation 
of such material as : 

First — Copies of ancient inscriptions and epitaphs ; full and 
exact copies of inscriptions from the cemeteries, monuments, 
tombs, tablets, etc., to be found in every city, town, village and 
hamlet of the State; extracts from town, church and parish rec- 
ords; transcripts of public records of births, marriages and deaths, 
and of private family records; personal reminiscences and narra- 
tives, taken from the lips of old persons yet living among us; 
autobiographies ; lists of soldiers and sailors, histories of regi- 
ments and military organizations, etc.. in the Revolutionary War, 
the Second War. and the late Civil War. 

Second — Lists of names found in ancient documents, such es- 
pecially as were engaged in any honorable public service ; also, 
the original documents or full coi^ies thereof, where they con- 
tain any important facts illustrative of the lives and actions of 
individuals, or of the history of the State. 

Third — Tables of longevity; statistical and biographical ac- 
counts of attorneys, physicians, ministers, and churches of all 
denominations ; of graduates of colleges, governors, senators and 
rei^resentatives in Congress, or in the State Legislature, military 
and naval officers, and other persons of distinction. 

Fourth — Biographical memoirs, sketches and notices of per- 
sons who came to North America, especially to the colony and 
State of New York, before the year 1700, showing from what 
places in Europe they came, their families there and their de- 
scendants in this country; full and minute genealogical memoirs 
and tables, showing the lineage and descent of families from the 
earliest date to which they can be authentically traced, down to 
the present time, with their branches and connections. 

Fifth — Printed books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., of a genea- 
logical, biographical and historical nature; official reports, rej)orts 
of societies; church manuals; historical, biographical, statistical, 
commemorative addresses, sermons, etc., — anj^hing, in fact, which 
preserves a name, a date or a fact which may possibly be of use to 
some future investigator. 



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It is (lifficnlt, indeed, for parties not conversant with genealog- 
ical and historical studies to appreciate how important a single 
fact may be in tracing their early ancestry. A fact of residence or 
ivmoval, a date of birth, marriage or death, may furnish or cor- 
roborate some item necessary to connect the parted links of the 
ancestral chain, or to elucidate some important historical ti'uth. 

The objects and work here outlined have been kept constantly 
in mind by the members of this Society during the period of a 
quarter of a (;entury, and to-day Ave come before the public to 
render a short and we trust a creditable account of our steward- 
ship. 

A\Tien this Society was organized, but few persons in our midst 
recognized the importance of our mission. The addition to the 
membership was slow, and at the close of the first year it was 
found that, notwithstanding a great amount of zealous eifort, the 
Society numbered but thirty-six resident members, thirty-six cor- 
responding, one honorary and four life members— in all seventy- 
seven members. 

The literature of family history comprising printed pedigrees, 
books and pamphlets published in the colony and State of New 
York, from the introduction of printing here in 1693 to the date 
of our organization, amounted to scarcely threescore and ten in 
number, and many of these were pamphlets of less than thirty 
i:)ages. Mark the contrast ! The average issues during the past 
twenty- five years will equal this number in each year, and the 
rapid growth of this study has become an important factor in the 
requisites of social organization. So remarkably is this the case 
that all grades of the community are alive to the study, causing 
demands upon our own and other libraries for facilities of investi- 
gation which astonishes even the casual observer. 

As before stated, additions to the resident membership of o\ir 
Society at first came in slowly, but, as the years passed on, now 
and then a wealthy and liberal member joined our little band and 
became a warm friend. 

One caused to be made, at great expense, an accurate tran- 
script of the records of the Society of Friends in this city and 
vicinity. 

A second paid the expense of a copy of the records of the 
First and Second Presbyterian Churches of the City of New 
York, and also of the Reformed Butch Church of New York, 
from 1G39 to 1800, at a cost of over fifteen hundred dollars. 



Address iy Dr. Purple. 5 

A third contributed a transcript of tlie records of churches on 
Long Island, notably St. George Church, Hempstead. 

A fourth, the records of Amboy, Woodbridge, Rahway and 
Plainfield Monthly Meeting of Friends from 1686 to 1800. 

A fifth, the records and family papers of the Macy and Coffin 
families, of Nantucket and New Bedford. 

A sixth, a distinguished archivist and historian, important 
additions to the marriage licenses of the city and colony of New- 
York, not comprised in the volume of marriage licenses published 
by the Legislature of New York in 1860. 

And need I say that some of these benefactors having finished 
their earthly career, the influence of their good deeds still lingers 
around us, and we hoj)e will awaken other members to emulate 
their noble example. 

The board of trustees of the Society, toward the close of the 
first year, directed their attention to the matter of a medium for 
the publication of the Society' s proceedings ; and early in the 
month of December, 1869, a bulletin of eight pages was issued, 
the edition being 2,000 copies. It contained some notes on the 
history of the Society, a list of its officers and members ; reviews 
of recent published works on family history, genealogy, local his- 
tories and biographies, in preparation and recently published, and 
a list of donations to the library. This was sent out as an experi- 
ment, to ascertain the desirability of the publication of a maga- 
zine. The response which this small tract called forth led the 
trustees, at a meeting held on the eleventh of March, 1870, to 
order the publication of a quarterly magazine in the interests of 
American genealogy and biography. A publication committee 
was appointed by the board, and the first number of Volume I. of 
the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" was soon 
issued. The subscription price was placed at one dollar a year, 
and the first volume comprised fifty-two pages. With the issue 
of the number for October, 1870, the continuance of the "Record" 
was announced and the size and price of the second volume 
increased. 

It was soon evident that the magazine would prove an expense 
to the Society, and in December of that year a club was formed 
which was composed of a few members of the Society, who as- 
sumed the pecuniary responsibility of the publication, giving to 
the library the books received for review, and the balance of the 
edition not required for the subscribers. The "Record" Club 



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continued practically to manage the publication for five years, and 
until the amount received from subscriptions paid foi- its publica- 
tion, when, at the desire of the board of trustees, the club dis- 
solved and the Society assumed its duties and responsibility. The 
"Record" has now completed its twenty-fourth volume, and we 
can say, without fear of being charged with egotism, that the 
twenty-four volumes are a mine of New York family history and 
biography second to no other publication. Tlie contributors to 
the pages of the "Record" have been and still are among the 
most distingiushed and learned writers of this city and State. No 
genealogist or biographer can safely ignore the contents of these 
volumes ; for in them are found the records of V)irth, marriage and 
death of the first white children bom of Dutch, Huguenot and 
English pai'ents on this Island and in the State — children bom 
here before the purchase of the Island from its aboriginal inhab- 
itants. 

But it is not of these only that our volumes treat, but of all 
nationalities, from the first settlement of white men and white 
women upon these shores to the present time. In them have ap- 
peared the marriage, birth, baptismal and deatli records of the 
earliest, aiid many of the later churches and societies, organized 
during the first and second centuries of civilization upon these 
shores. Contributions to the history of ancient families in 
Albany, New York, and many other early settlements in this 
State, from competent and trustworthy scholars of American his- 
tory, are found in its precious and most valuable pages. In so 
much as it is difiicult to find a work in public libraries of this 
city that is as frequently called for by writers as the "New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Record." 

The publication of the marriage, birth, or baptismal and death 
records of various churches in this city, early received the atten- 
tion of the publication committee of the Society. In the volume 
of the "Record" for 1873 we commenced printing the registers of 
the First Presbyterian Church, which began in the year 1728, and 
liave brought their publication down to the year 1800. In the 
same volume we began printing the records of the Society of 
Friends of the City of New York and vicinity, commencing in 
1640 and extending down to 1800. In 1874 the records of the 
Reformed Dutch Chur(;h from 1689 were commenced, and the 
marriages have bean printed down to 1800. The baptisms have 
also been jn-inted down to 1746, and are being continued. These 



Address by Dr. Purple. 7 

records are the most complete of all tlie churches in the city, and 
tlieir importance to the genealogist and historian cannot be 
over estimated. Tiiey throw a iiood of light upon the genealogical 
and social history of New Amsterdam and New York, and scarcely 
a family whose ancestor arrived in the colony previous to 1700 but 
will here find a record of his descendants. 

It may be asked how much of the vast material in possession 
of the Society has been printed % The ansAver is that the twenty- 
four volumes of our quarterly "Genealogical and Biographical 
Record" contain nearly five thousand pages relating to family 
history and biography. And that the first volume of the Society' s 
collections, published in 1890, containing three hundred and forty 
pages, is made up of the marriages recorded in the archives of the 
first church established on this Island, in 1628, and it contains 
over 29,400 names of pei'sons who were married before the year 
1800. 

By a wise provision in the by-laws of the Society, adopted at 
its institution in 1869 — which provision still governs it — the fees 
of the life membership constitute a perpetual fund to be invested 
by the trustees for building purposes, the annual interest of 
which, if need be, may be used for current expenses. This fund 
has recently been added to by a loving mother's bequest of 
$20,000, in memory of her only son, who was a life member of our 
Society. This fund amounts at the present time to nearly $25,000, 
and is available only for a building for the Society's use. Such a 
building is greatly needed, and may we not hope that ere long 
some benevolent friend or friends will add to this a sum sufficient 
to i^lace the Society in possession of a well-equipped building 
fully adapted to its wants. 

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will detain you no longer. 
Suffice it to say, this Society feels that it has claims upon the 
public for having planted in the unpropitious soil of this City and 
State of New York a love for family history, and in furtherance 
of these claims we commend your attention to the speakers who 
will now, at the request of the president, address you. 



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LETTER FROM DR. STILES. 

London, England, February 7th, 1894. 

Gen. James Grant Wilson, 

President New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 
New York City. 
My Dear Sir: 

I accept, with sincere pleasure, the opportunity afforded by your courteous 
invitation, to offer my congratulations to the New York Genealogical and 
Biographical .Society, on the occasion of the Twenty-tifth Anniversary of its birth. 
I should, of course, prefer to be with you in person and to say what I have to say, 
with the living voice and from a full heart ; but, as that cannot be, I shall have to 
ask you to be my mouth-piece for the nonce. 

I very well remember the boisterously stormy evening in February, '69, when 
the Society was born at Dr. Holton's residence, No. 124 West 54th Street. The rain 
was a veritable deluge and the wind roared and "blew great guns;" but the medical 
faculty, true to their professional instincts, were there in force — besides our host. Dr. 
Holton, there were, I think. Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, my brother, Dr. S. 
Edward Stiles and myself ; and the ministry was on hand also, — the Rev. Seymour 
A. Baker and the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, of Boston ; and good mother Holton was 
hovering around with true motherly solicitude. 

Dr. David Parsons Holton and his wife, Mrs. Frances K. Holton, natives of 
Massachusetts, but long residents of New York City, were undoubtedly X\it parotts of 
this Society. The call for its existence came from them. They were largely 
engaged in extended genealogical investigations, and had felt the need of that aid 
and comfort which comes in all literary and scientific work from association with 
those of similar tastes and pursuits. And, being members of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society of Boston, they conceived the idea of securing the 
advantages of a similar organization for their adopted city and State. I remember 
that this first meeting — although we all met as absolute strangers and were but a 
handful in number — was enthusiastic, unanimous and practical in its sentiment and 
action. The child was born, and its first drawn breath gave evidence of good 
vitality. As regards the Society's "heredity," I may further say that, as Dr. and 
Mrs. Holton and myself (and possibly Dr. Holcombe) had long been corresponding 
members, and as the Rev. Mr. Slafter was then an active member of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical Society of Boston (and, indeed, was present w-ith us 
on that evening as its representative) our Society may well claim to be the "direct 
issue" of that venerable and excellent organization. 

Then the scene changes. At its second and third meeting the infant organiza- 
tion finds itself "at home" with Dr. Holcombe, No. 54 East 25th Street, a position 
more convenient of general access than its original birth-place. Dr. William 
Frederic Holcombe, who will probably be with you on this evening, was par 
excellence, the Foster Father of this Society. In the genial atmosphere of his 
helpful presence and in his spacious consulting-room, the Society's education and the 
formation of its character was begun. Here came to us, I think, at a very early 
date. Dr. Samuel S. Purple, Gen. George S. Greene, Rev. Edward C. .Marshall, 
S. Hastings Grant, Charles B. Moore, and many others whose names I cannot now 
recall ; and here, week after week, we held eager and busy sessions over the 
formation of Constitution, By-Laws, etc., which being duly set in type, we discussed 



Letter from Dr. Stiles. 9 

leisurely from the frequently corrected proof-sheets. These, our organic foundations, 
were largely based upon those of the Long Island Historical and the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Societies—if I remember aright. And I firmly believe that 
not even the Constitution of the United States received from its framers more loving 
care and overwhelming wisdom than did these documents, which— with the aid of a 
Certificate of Incorporation, duly filed in the office of the Secretary of State— gave us 
official recognition in the World of Letters and of Action. 

I think it was while we were here gathered, also, that we inaugurated the 
"Bulletin" (which after two years developed into the "Record") and of which, also, 
S. Hastings Grant and myself were the first editors ; much of the real work being 
done at Mr. Grant's office in lower Broadway. I have never regretted that we made 
this early start in this direction ; it has proved to be the mainstay of, and best apology 
for the Society's existence thus far. The Board of Trustees, whatever may have been 
the fluctuating fortunes of the Society, at times, has always stood manfully by the 
"Record"; and the Publishing Committee, whatever changes oi personnel it may 
have undergone, has always been wise, earnest and persevering in the conduct of its 
finances and character. Those of you who are old members will, I am sure, join 
with me to-night in honoring Dr. Samuel S. Purple, to whose unwearied interest and 
ability for over a score of years, the " Record " is so greatly indebted for its value. 

Then, having gotten our baby Society so that it could "toddle" upon its 
constitutional legs ; and having outgrown Dr. Holcombe's nursery-room, we betook 
ourselves to that weird and depressing mausoleum at No. 64 Madison Avenue, 
known as The Mott Memorial Hall. Here, cramped for room in which to stretch 
our growing limbs ; limited to one or two evenings a month in which to meet our 
friends; chilled to the bone by the musty atmosphere of dead and decaying medical 
literature, we were — for some years — in danger of growing prematurely old, and 
ultimately dying of "dry rot." But, after all, the blood of youth was stronger in us 
than we thought ; we recklessly bought ourselves an expensive book-case for our 
library beginnings; and, when, speedily, that became over-full, we hired a little 
hall-room off the lecture-room ; and, finally, we boxed up our least needed literary 
treasurers and hired storage for them up in the attic. And our membership 
increased apace. Among them John Stagg Gautier, whose early and lamented 
death deprived the Society of a model Recording Secretary ; Edward F. De Lancey, 
Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Martin H. Stafford, Evelyn Bartow, Henry T. Drowne — 
yourself, Mr. President, and many others — most of whom are still with you — but some 
of whom have "fallen asleep." The first who held the office of Register of 
Pedigrees was t)r. S. Edward Stiles, who, I may mention en passant, was the designer 
of the Society's official seal. 

We had very pleasant times in old Memorial Hall, although we did protest, 
especially at each recurring "quarter-day," that we must and would find some livelier 
and more attractive home. But the curse of Poverty and the ban of Conservatism 
were heavy upon us ; and we lingered along, keeping our altar fires burning as best 
we could, until you, Mr. President, became our Moses to lead us out into the wider 
and fairer land which we now occupy — the Berkeley Lyceum. 

And now the Society has reached its majority ; and to-night will receive the 
congratulations of its many friends. I need scarcely assure you, Mr. President, that 
among those who will listen to these words of mine, as they are read to them to-night, 
there will be not one whose heart contains a truer love for the New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Society than mine. The recollections of my own 
official connection with it ; of the work I have been permitted to do for it ; of the 



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intimate relations I have enjoyed, in time past, with its members, I shall ever 
treasure as the greatest personal privilege and honor of my life. And so, with 
heartiest good wishes for the Society and its membership, I remain, Mr. President, 
Your and their sincere friend, 

HENRY R. STILES, A. M., M. D. 



ADDRESS BY MR. EDWARD F. DE LANCET. 

I congratulate the Society upon its arrival at the age of 
twenty-iive years. It is a long period in the life of an individual, 
but it is not a long peviod in the life of a society — a successful 
society — particularly of a society of this kind. 

There has been soniev.'hat of a misapprehension as to the 
object of this Society, and others of the same nature in other 
cities, in the view of the general public. That object is not for 
the mere purpose of a hunt for ancestors to gratify personal or 
family pride, as often charged. It is for the purpose, primarily, 
in my opinion, of forming a true and firm foundation on which 
those who are to come after us can establish the fact that they 
are the descendants of the original settlers and founders of civil- 
ized life upon this continent, not of the hordes of the foreigners 
of all kinds who are coming over here year after year, the vast 
majority of whom are of the lowest classes of all the nations of 
Europe, to say nothing of the Chinese, and those from other 
Asiatic countries. 

None can tell what the result of all this irruption of old 
nations will be upon our people and institutions. As soon as a 
liundred years hence, the former will become a race of wonder- 
fully mixed origin, and the latter may be in progress of disin- 
tegration, utterly changed, or perhaps destroyed. Whatever 
happens hereafter, this Society, and other cognate societies, 
are doing a noble work in searching out, recording and pre- 
serving for all time, the evidence of the ancestry of those 
who were, historically, and actually, the founders of our 
country as a civilized Christian land, and of the descent from 
them of those who are living here to-day. I claim thtit these 
descendants, vastly numerous as they now are, and those affili- 




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Address by Mr. De Lancey. 11 

ated with them by blood, are they who are primarily entitled to 
rule this country. [Applause.] I do say, that though we have 
received foreigners from all quarters of the world witli open 
arms, and subsequently, and in some States, immediately, made 
them citizens, these facts give them no right to rule the land and 
control the destinies of the American nation. But they and the 
demagogues who move them claim that they do. And I am sorry 
to say that such has been the effect, to a great extent, in many 
places, owing mainly to these same jjolitical demagogues, mis- 
leading them for party or personal purposes. 

Now, the formation and existence of this and similar societies 
in the different States, and also the formation and existence of the 
various patriotic societies of a different character all over the 
country — the Cincinnati, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society 
of Colonial Wars, the Colonial Dames of America, the Daughters 
of the Revolution, the Society of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, 
and other organizations of a like nature — are all practically jjro- 
tests, and very strong ones, against that idea. Why ! ladies and 
gentlemen, do you know that there are now in this country — have 
come here within the last five-and-twenty years — about a million 
of French Canadians, more than eight- tenths of them "habitans" 
of Lower Canada '( And of the other two-tenths, very few of them 
are from the upper classes of the Canadian Dominion. So great 
has been the influx, that they are actually changing the character 
and population of the six New England States, personally as well 
as politically, and, to a less extent, ecclesiastically. 

If the foreigners who come here would settle down and become 
really Americans in their new home, it would be perfectly right, 
and as desirable as right. Very many of them do so, particularly 
among the Gfermans, and the thrifty Irish. All honor and respect 
to them for it. But the great mass do not ; they continue to be 
Irish, Italians, Germans, French Canadians, and other foreigners, 
go back to their old homes as soon as they can, and while here 
form clans, societies, organizations and other bodies of their 
various nationalities among themselves, for their own purposes, 
and for no American puri^ose whatever, except to vote against 
Amei'icans for office, to sell their votes to any party that has the 
money to buy them, or to prevent, by force, willing men fi'om 
getting willing wages. 

All who become true Americans and continue in the country 
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proportion of political action and political honors. They who do 
so and become genuine Americans are often found among our 
best men and most patriotic citizens, and as such are justly and 
highlj* honored and esteemed. Such were Peter S. du Ponceau 
of Pennsylvania, Albert Gallatin and Robert Emmett of New 
York, Du Pont de Nemours of Delaware, the late Professor 
Agassiz of Massachusetts, and other similar examples in all 
classes of our people who may easily be recalled to mind. 

But there is one fact, Mr. President, to which, at the close of 
the few minutes allotted to me, I must allude ; and that is the 
striking effect of this Society on the longevity of its members. 
All its five Presidents are alive and well, and all ai'e here this 
evening except the first. Dr. Stiles, distinguished for his historical 
works, who is in Europe. To say naught of the elderly gentle- 
man who succeeded Dr. Stiles, we have with us a youthful gentle- 
man, erect, vigorous, though his hair is a trifle gray, who has 
been distinguished in peace and distinguished in war, the third 
President of the Society, who, now in his ninety-third year, will 
next address you — General George Sears Greene. [Applause.] 

On your right and left, Mr. President, sit two of the original 
founders, both of whose names shine among the brightest on the 
roll of the older and illustrious physicians of New York, Doctors 
Pui'ple and Eliot; the one uniting the blood of the Dutch and 
the Puritans, and wielding a graceful pen, the other descended 
from the great divine, Eliot, who first translated the Bible into 
the language of the Indians, and who, although he possesses his 
ancestor's book, I regret to say, never reads and never quotes it. 

As to yourself, sir, we all feel that you will be here to preside 
at the centennial of the Society — if not at that of your own elec- 
tion to the presidency many years later — bright, vigorous, and 
ever ready to take the chair. 



ADDRESS BY GEN. GEORGE S. GREENE. 

I .shall say but a few words to you, and instead of giving my 
own .sentiments I shall adopt those of a distiuguislied statesman 
and scholar, whose words I read to you : 

' ' Of all the affections of mankind, those which connect him 



Address by Mr. Browne. 13 

with his ancestry are among the most natural and generous. 
They enlarge the sphere of his interests, multiply his motives to 
virtue, and give intensity to his sense of duty to give to genera- 
tions to come by the perception of obligation to those that are 
past." 

These are the words of the Hon. Josiah Quincy, a man dis- 
tinguished in literature and in statesmanship. 

In hearing Dr. Purple's account of the "Record" it occurs 
to me that, while these sentiments in relation to the value of 
that work are before you, you should be advised that these 
volumes are packed lap in boxes, ready to be distributed among 
you for the benefit of your families, and for the benefit, also, of 
our fund. We hope that this will strike deep into your hearts 
and that you will seek this means of enriching yourselves and 
promoting our prosi^erity. 



ADDRESS BY HENRY T. DROWNE. 

When, not many years ago, the lamented Stephen Whitney 
Phoenix left a legacy of $15,000 to the New York Historical Soci- 
ety, the income of which was to be devoted to securing books 
relating to genealogy, it was thought by certain persons to be a 
chimerical purpose, though he added to it all the books he had 
been life-long collecting on that subject, and also upon heraldry. 
That collection, together with the volumes of this Society, con- 
stitutes the most complete library of genealogy existing at pres- 
ent in New York, and he, with singular forecast, anticipated the 
result; as the time has already arrived when much is sought from 
these sources in the way of personal biographies, national events, 
and, in fact, all the materials of history. 

Were you to ask the respective librarians, Mr. Greene and 
Mr. Kelby, of these societies, it would be found that frequent 
inquiry arises from persons who wish to become Daughters or 



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Sons of the Revolution or members of other kindred Societies, 
and have no resource to fall back upon except local and family 
histories gathered in archives like ours. 

The utility of genealogy is certainly obvious, and its contribu- 
tion to the history of a country is indispensable. I need mention 
but a fevir names, notably those of Gen. George Sears Greene, Col. 
Chester, Mr. Austin, Dr. Puii^le, Mr. Paterson, Dr. Stiles, Mr. 
Waters, Col. Gardiner, Mr. John Ward Dean, Mr. Moore, Mr. 
Latting and Col. Ward, who have rendered valuable services in 
this department of history. 

The pedigrees of the leading families of almost every locality 
are the foundation stones of its history. To be sure, as has been 
objected by some, it was the fashion among the wits and philos- 
ophers of the last century to throw ridicule on the subject of pedi- 
gree; but the sarcasm of Voltaire, Walpole and Chesterfield may 
in a measure be excused when we take into account the mixture 
of pedantry, fiction and Hattery which, in their day, so largely 
usurped the place of historical truth. Since tliat time, however, 
genealogical studies have entered on a new phase. A i-ace of 
learned and accurate investigators has sprung up, who, ap- 
]^roaching genealogy in a critical spirit, have bi'ought entirely new 
resources to bear on it. Rejecting all that is not bome out by 
authentic evidence, they have apfilied themselves to the patient 
exanunation of the national records and the archives of historical 
and genealogical societies. Each source has yielded its quota of 
facts, and these facts have been woven into genealogical biog- 
raphies. 

Mr. Phoenix was but briefly a working member of this Society. 
His failing health soon obliged him to retire from active service; 
hut mindful for the best interests of posterity, he wished to add 
to the copjang of the Dutch Church records, for the expense of 
which he had amply provided, those of the English (Trinity) 
Church and the French (Huguenot) Church. 

His personal contribution of three sumptuous volumes to the 
"Genealogy of the Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affili- 
ations," is at once a scholarly and benelicent example of a true- 
hearted genealogist. Col. Chester placed this work in the fore- 
most rank of American biography. 







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Address hy Judge Clearwater. 15 

ADDRESS BY HON. A. T. CLEARWATER. 

When I was invited by the Secretary of this Society to make a 
live-ntiinnte address npon the debt of gratitude this town owes to 
the Dutch and Hugnenot emigrants from Holland and France, I 
felt much as did a distinguished divine who was asked to make a 
ten minute speech iipon the advance of Christianity since the 
dawn of civilization. But leaving a grand jury in Ulster Coimty, 
investigating the misdeeds of members of that horde of Italian, 
Russian and Polish noblemen to whom Mr. De Lancey has so 
delicately alluded, and crossing the North River on the ice, I am 
here to do the best I can, in that time, upon so great a theme. 

With a long line of Dutch and Huguenot ancestors behind me, 
I have often thought of the response of Charles O'Connor to the 
toast, "The Founders of New Amsterdam," at one of the first 
dinners of the St. Nicholas Society I ever attended. It was, I 
think, the last public dinner he was at. "I have lived," said he, 
' ' here in New York, among the old New Yorkers, for over seventy 
years. I am an alien to their race and an opponent to their 
religion, and yet I must add that I never knew one of them who 
was a coward, never one of them who did a mean action." 

Old New Yorkers were so largely of Dutch and Huguenot de- 
scent that the illustrious Irishman' s tribute may be justly taken 
as an epitome of their character. They were a brave, truthful, 
honest, industrious, magnanimous and simple race. Freedom was 
with them a passion; liberty, both civil and religious, a condition 
of existence. They were broad and tolerant in a bigoted and 
intolerant age. They founded this community upon the great and 
fundamental principles of an open Bible and public schools. 
[Applause.] Every place where the Dutchman and Huguenot 
made their homes, educated their children and worshipped their 
Maker, still bears in its best life the strong impress of their ster- 
ling and lofty character. And it is because we had so large an 
immigration of Dutchmen and Huguenots that we still find in the 
best life of New York that conservatism, that tolerance, that love 
of civil and religious liberty which has been so marked a feature 
of this munieiiiality from the eai-liest times. [Applause.] 

It is for all this, and for a just pride of ancestry, that we are 
indebted to the Dutchmen and the Huguenots. 

When the great dining clubs of this gilded metropolis meet in 
their banqueting halls, the followers of St. George, of St. Denis, 



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of St. Andi-ew, and, above all, of St. Patrick, celebrate them- 
selves. But when the St. Nicholas and Holland Societies dine, 
they modestly speak of the deeds of those who preceded them, 
and who have handed down to them a stainless name. [Applause.] 
Therefore, it is well for the Genealogical and Biographical Society 
of New York to cultivate the memory of the Dutchman and the 
Huguenot. 

If, following the example of the Dutch dominies who thun- 
dered from the pulpits of New Amsterdam, I may be peimitted to 
treat my subject as in some respects a point of departure, it will 
not be amiss to speak of a matter wliic-h is attracting the attention 
not only of the residents of New York, but of the State and 
Nation. There is a movement on foot, having the sanction of the 
men who create and unmake the government of this to^^ni, to de- 
stroy one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in this 
country. The City Hall belongs not only to you, but to this 
Republic. It is connected with some of the greatest names 
in American history, particularly with those of our fomiative 
period — Lafayette, Clinton, Seward, Marcy and Van Buren — 
and it has been for a brief time the resting place of the remains 
of some of the nation's heroes and martyrs. It would be 
eminently fitting for the descendants of the Dutchmen, Hugue- 
nots, Englishmen and Scotchmen who are gathered here to 
place on record their protest against this act of desecrating 
vandalism. [Continued applause.] 

It was justly said by a brilliant English essayist that no people 
wiU achieve that which will be remembered with pride by remote 
posterity, who do not cherish with pride the deeds of an heroic 
ancestry; and while it is the particular province of this Society to 
recall the deeds and the memory of their ancestors, it is quite 
within its sphere to do anything which will intensify the historic 
sense in a country in which that sentiment is none too strong. 
[Applause.] 

I fear that should I return to my original theme after this 
digression I might exceed the ample time allotted me by your 
Secretary, who seems inspired by a just ambition to ciiltivate com- 
pression in a diffusive age. 

But after all, I can add nothing to the force of what I have 
already said. I have simply reminded you of what you already 
knew, that the Dutchman and the Huguenot were line exemplars 
of a simple, noble and heroic life. [Applause.] 



Anniversary Address hy Gen. Greely. 17 

ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS BY GEN. A. W. GREELY. 

As regard the development of the human race and its envi- 
ronment, which we call modern civilization, the most remarkable 
transitions during the past century have been coincident with the 
building up of great centers of population. Until a centiiry since, 
the growth of cities was almost entirely dependent on interna- 
tional commerce, and so limited was the scope of this influence, 
that in 1800 there was only one city in the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain with a population of 100,000, and none in the 
United States. The conditions and industrial pursuits here in 
America were such that, between 1765 and 1790, the growth of 
Boston was proportionately slower than that of the rural popu- 
lation of Massachusetts. 

About that time, however, a new era dawned on the world, an 
era due, in my opinion, to the successful initiation and gradual 
development of the idea that man, individual man, is the true 
social, political and religious unit. The forceful examples of 
American aggregation, energy and application growing out of this 
idea were not lost either on the old mother country, or on the 
Napoleonic confederacy that then dominated greater Europe. 
England and America were especially quick to note, and swift to 
apply to industrial employments, Watts' improvements in the 
steam engine, and close on this advance swelled the wonderful 
changes that science has wrought in the methods of production 
and trade. With these changed conditions grew up the absolute 
necessity of association — in order to carry out the audacious and 
magnificent enterprises of the modern Hercules of industry — asso- 
ciation not alone of capital and leaders, but of the rank and file, 
whose dextrous fingers should wring the utmost product from the 
cunning machines entrusted to their manipulation. 

From changed industrial methods, then, have come the great 
cities of to-day, and so efficacious have been these causes that 
there are now in the United States no less than twenty-eight cities 
of 100,000 inhabitants, four more than in Great Britain, and three 
cities of a million, while no other nation has more than one. 
Under association and its stimulating influences, the progi-ess of 
the material world has surpassed the wildest dreams of the old 
romancers ; from the tallow candle to the electric lamp, and from 
the snail-paced wagon to the Empire State exj^ress. While in the 
outer universe the waves of the spectroscope bring within man's 



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recognizable sight the constituent elements of the remotest fixed 
stars, here on earth the waves of the telephone catch the human 
voice, that, unaided, sinks into silence in a hundred yards, and 
sends it with startling clearness and unimpaired timbre a distance 
of a thousand miles. 

But there are better things than the material elements of 
human existence, for Goethe spake true when he said: "No 
greater good can befall a city than that there should dwell therein 
a body of educated men whose ideas are similar as to what is good 
and right." 

And so it has been good for New York that its unparalleled 
growth as a commercial and industrial center has brought to it, 
not alone vigor of action and acuteness of business perception, but 
has also drawn to it an element that has so stimulated its x-eligious 
activities. It is indisputable that the human heart now throbs 
here as never before in tenderest sympathy for the helpless and 
unfortunate, and the labors of love, consideration and chaiity 
keep pace with the due and growing necessities of the time and 
occasion. 

But man is not alone to dominate the forces of nature, to 
exploit the most distant regions of the earth, nor is it only his 
destiny to bind up the wounds of the unfortunate or to turn his 
mind continually to the contemplation of even the most sacred 
truths. "We acknowledge and should pay our indebtedness to the 
world in its various forms, as the head of a family, as good neigh- 
bors, as i^atriotic citizens, and as men in the countless activities 
that are incumbent on every inhabitant of a great city. But after 
due exertions to insure the welfare of the state and nation, the 
security of the citizen, the i^rosperity of the city and the happi- 
ness of the home, there arise other longings which look to intel- 
lectual development and the acquirement of knowledge. In that 
too brief leisure Avhich comes to American men and women, there 
is the necessity for most of us to supj)lement our vocation by an 
avocation. Not only do the days come and go more pleasantly 
when an agreeable occupation fills up our hours, but such con- 
genial labor accumulates a body of interesting information, while 
It also conduces to mental gratification and the happiness of the 
individual. 

Under these cii'cumstances, it is fortunate when our avocation 
is of such a character as to bring us in contact with cultured, edu- 
cated persons, whose lines of thought and intellectual effort run 



Anniversary Address by Gen. Greely. 19 

parallel to or converge with our own. It is not to be expected 
that the special line of research and diversion most in consonance 
with onr personal tastes should find a responsive echo in every 
man' s heart. Indeed, if it did, we should feel that our own being 
was marked with a feeble individuality. If, however, we do not 
seek for universal commendation of our intellectual occupations, 
yet, on the other hand, we should be so liberal and broad-minded 
as to listen without vexation of spirit to unsympathetic com- 
ments. It is characteristic of many men, even men of individu- 
ality and standing, to view with a certain distrustful air those 
sciences with which they are unacquainted, or are ignorant of, 
and to sneer at such accumulations of knowledge as lie beyond 
the narrow range of their sympathies. Fortiinately the world at 
large, with its conflicting and often hostile opinions, plays but a 
small part in the intellectual pleasure and happiness of the indi- 
vidual. It is true that the lives of most of us derive their 
pleasures from the action and mental attitude toward us of a com- 
paratively small number of people, whose sjonpathetic and con- 
genial relations afford us more pleasure than do all the world, 
while their converse and their criticisms give strength and tone to 
our ideas and principles. 

It seems hardly necessary before this distinguished Society to 
dwell on the value and importance of the siiecific objects for 
v.hich it was organized, those of genealogical research and bio- 
graphical compilation. There are many standpoints from which 
these labors are valuable ; and in accumulating vast stores of 
otherwise inaccessible historical data, your Society in the past 
twenty-five years has done a work of great value, which from year 
to year will be more ap23reciated by scientific investigators and 
historical writers. I deem it fortunate for many of you that your 
researches have turned in so agreeable a direction. The business 
affairs of our daily life demand, to a hitherto unequalled degrees 
ability, earnestness and application, in which the mind is held to 
the strictest sequence and is pitched often upon a very high key, 
Under such conditions our avocations should hannonize best with 
such investigations of an intellectual character as demand less 
exacting thought and permit of interrupted action. Researches 
of a genealogical character have, fortunately, an incousecutive- 
ness, which may not inaptly be considered to enhance their special 
charm and fascination. 

Results have justified the prescient judgment of the organizer 



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of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, that the 
time was ripe for such an organization in this metropolis citj' of 
our greatest State. It is evident that at the present time there is 
an unprecedented and steadily growing interest in investigations 
of the character to which you devote the energies of your leisure 
hours. The invaluable work that this Society has done, in 
gathering up and preserving the perishing and scattered records 
of family, local and state history, is beginning to be recognized; 
and doubtless you have exercised a powerful influence in stimu- 
lating hundreds of others to work of like character. The difficul- 
ties always attendant on the collation of very early records and 
manuscripts have been enhanced in your case by the fact that 
such papers are in a tongue unfamiliar to the ordinary student; 
so every historical investigator whose researches lead him to early 
colonial records feels a double debt of gratitude to the members of 
this Society. 

American genealogy is like all other lines of American investi- 
gation, broad and comprehensive in its scope. It is not strictly 
confined to the antecedent history of such families as have 
attained distinction, acquired wealth, or held high official posi- 
tion, but it ranges on the broader lines of accumulation, 
preservation and collation of accompanying data that illustrate 
the actual conditions of the early days of the feeble colonies, and 
their stages of growth to an unequalled power among the nations 
of the globe. 

It is not alone a mere tabular record of the names, dates of 
birth, marriages and deaths of particular families that you have 
tabulated and given to the world, but you have supplemented 
them with a vast accumulation of well-arranged and interesting 
facts pertaining to family aifairs, local government, religious mat- 
ters and political administrations. This material is simply inval- 
uable for the future historian who shall weave the historic web 
whereon shall appear in fitting colors the wonderful story of the 
past three hundred years of the Empire State. It is pleasant to 
note that a part of your labors have borne welcome fruit in the 
extremely interesting memorial history of this city, lately given 
to the world through the efforts of your distinguished president. 

Quite vanished, even from European countries, is the practice 
of pampering family pride by manufactured pedigrees, which 
have as their bases the paid imagination of the searcher or the 
grossly exaggerated if not wholly fabulous traditions of family 



Anniversary Address by Gen. Greely. 21 

servitors. The day has long since passed when such genealogical 
perversions are credited hy any intelligent individual, and at no 
time were they accepted by any serious student of history. If 
some such find place in works called authoritative, they only 
serve to bring discredit on the editor and ridiciile on the family. 

Contrary to the generally accepted opinion, genealogical asso- 
ciations do not tolerate the perjsetuation of idle fables, but their 
researches usually result in shorn honors, and their phases of 
higher criticism have exploded hundreds of family traditions, 
much to the chagrin of those interested, but, in American re- 
search, and in this distinguished Society especially, the truth and 
the truth only is sought. Its intelligent and well-directed labors 
confirm the verdict of history that birth, rank and fortune are 
neither incompatible with nor do they monopolize talent and 
gecius, and that in America, of all countries, the qualities im- 
planted by God in the children of the poor and lowly not infre- 
quently develop to the credit of the individual and the glory of 
the State. All families had humble beginnings, and the nobility 
and merit which elevate men here find their recognition in an en- 
lightened public opinion instead of in the exigencies of politics, 
the caprice of a monarch or the judgment of a premier. 

Take the most illustrious name in American history, Washing- 
ton, whose antecedent lineage is problematical beyond his great- 
grandfather, the English pedigree being, as an acute and judicial 
Marylander assured me after examination of it, incapable of 
proof. And of the family of Washington, the people near a 
secluded hamlet, where the young surveyor made his earliest 
reputation, speak to-day as of plain or at least ordinary origin, 
since he sprang from the settlers of the Rappahannock and not 
from those of the James. 

Research shows that the fortunes of families have their flow of 
success and ebb of disaster, and unchanging conditions only ob- 
tain among those of extreme caution and conservatism. The tale 
runs that King James, in journeying from Edinburgh to London, 
tarried for the night with a baron, who, vaunting of his nobility 
to his majesty, said that for four hundred years he and his ances- 
tors had held unchanged, neither diminished nor increased an 
acre, the family estate. To the baron's chagrin, witty King 
James promptly queried : " What, neither a wise man nor a fool 
in the family in all these generations 'i ' ' 

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old order has given place imto new. Year by year the countries 
are becoming more restricted, if indeed any now there be, in which 
purity of lineal descent plays any special indispensable part in 
qualifications for priestly or other public functions. With the 
march of time privileges of caste have faded, always diminishing, 
never expanding, and now disqualilications on the score of 
rank, wealth, religion or race are so i^are as to be a matter of 
surprise. As an illustration may be mentioned the jirovision in 
the Constitution of Massachusetts requiring the Governor to be 
seized in real estate to the amount of one thousand pounds at 
the time of his election — a provision which curiously abided to 
this decade, and would have disqualified ex-Governor Russell 
had he not incidentally learned thereof a week before election. 
The recognition of this antiquated proviso was its death, and 
the property-holding qualification was at once eliminated from 
the Constitution of the old Bay State. 

It seems hardly necessary before this distinguished Society 
to dwell on the value and importance, from many standpoints, 
of its specific objects, biographical and genealogical research. 
From the beginning of recorded history, pride of ancestry and 
hope for one's posterity have gone hand in hand as attributes 
of tlie liuman race. "Human and mortal though we are,'' said 
\A''ebster, "we are nevertheless not mere insulated beings, with- 
out relation to the past and future." 

A not unim]iortant effect of historic genealogies is the vivify- 
ing action on history and historical personages, which become 
instructively interesting by their forceful individualities, sug- 
gestive picturesqueness or tender personality. The shadowy 
forms of history become actual personalities, with the effect of 
inducing an interest otherwise unknown in the story of the 
period and subject under consideration. 

Doubtless there are many problems connected with the trans- 
mission and development of physical, mental and moral qualities 
that demand the aid of the genealogist for their satisfactory solu- 
tion. Such data, supplemented with infonnation as to environ- 
ment, should shed a flood of light on many mooted questions that 
concern the welfare of mankind, and in this scientific age it 
should be only a question of time when legislative enactment will 
restrict intermarriages along lines that jiromise only deforma- 
tion, disease and insanity. There seems, for instance, no more 
serious objections to a carefully guarded law specifying a nubile 



Anniversary Address by Oen. Greely. 23 

condition dependent on health than in one resting on age alone. 

We all believe in an aristocracy of some kind, and even the 
most democratic can scarcely object to the theory that, as a rule, 
the descendants of well-mated husbands and wives, whose phys- 
ical, mental and intellectual qualities are of the highest order, will 
be, the conditions of life being equal, mentally, morally and 
physically superior to those of the ill-mated, feeble and indiffer- 
ent. A most striking illustration of the first-named class is the 
Le Moyne family. 

Among the very earliest settlers of Hochelega, now Montreal, 
was the son of a Norman innkeeper, a young French lad of fifteen, 
Charles Le Moyne, who came to this Indian village in 1641. He 
gained such a knowledge of the possibilities of the country, such 
an insight into Indian character, and such a wealth of vigorous 
manhood as enabled him to acquire during his life an estate that 
was princely. He did better than this ; he married a woman 
worthy of him, whose family is hardly known, Catherine Tierry, 
an adopted daughter of Antoine Primot. 

In all American families there is none that has as distin- 
guished and brilliant a history as the twelve sons and two daugh- 
ters, born of this French peasant and the son of a Norman inn- 
keeper in the forests of Canada. The two daughters married 
nobles, and, of the twelve sons, nine live distinguished in history; 
three of them were killed in the service of France, ten were 
ennobled, and four — Iberville, Serigny, Chateauguay and Bien- 
ville, the younger* — played important parts in the founding of 
Louisiana. 

But what would not the student of heredity give to know the 
ancestral history of this man and this woman, and of other 
remarkable and kindred examples, for nature teaches in eveiy 
way that the best is a growth, a development, an evolution. 

There is no need at this late day to insist on the influence of 
ancestry on the individual. Heredity, whether in man or in the 
lower species of living organisms, is an acknowledged force. To 
what extent it dominates man is, however, a matter of dispute. 
It is unquestionable that physiological heredity obtains as a gen- 
eral rule. The offspring show, more or less clearly, the marked 
physical peculiarities of their parents or grandparents, not only 
as to internal structure and external appearance, but also as to 
idiosyncracies. In size of bones, shape of cranium and other 
parts, in facial appearance, height, figure, complexion, abnormal 



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number of teeth, fingers, etc., the children betray in many cases 
their parentage even to the least oVjserring. The transmission of 
longevity, of musical gift or of personal idiosyncracies are like- 
wise quite well established in the annals of heredity. These views 
are so genei-ally accepted that we hail as true the saying, ascribed 
to Holmes, I believe, that the training of a child should begin a 
hundred years before it is bom. We cannot get away from the 
divine law set forth in the Mosaic code, that God will "visit the 
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's 
children, unto the third and the fourth generation," and we may 
add our faith that the %-irtues also have their transmitted effect. 

From the jihysiological standpoint, Richard Jeffries described 
with appalling realism the extreme view of heredity, when he 
said : ' ' Our bodies are full of unsuspected flaws, handed down, it 
may be, for thousands of years, and it is of these that we die, and 
not of natural decay. * * * The truth is, we die through our 
ancestors: we are muidered by our ancestors. Their dead hands 
stretch forth from the tomb and drag us dovm to their moldering 
bones.'' 

It is not my intention to enter on the debatable ground as to 
how far the mental and moral qualities are inherited, nor to what 
extent any inherited characteristics are modified by en^-ironment. 
Instances innumerable exist where powers of imagination as poet, 
painter or musician, acuteness of intellect in science or philos- 
ophy, and sensibility, passion and will qualities, have character- 
ized to a marked degree generations of the same famOy, and the 
j)ermanenee of character in certain nations or races is unques- 
tioned. It is only needful to here point out the great value of 
reliable genealogical researches to future investigators, who shall 
hereafter apply the more rigorous scientific methods to the study 
of heredity, for the tendency of the day is to insist more and 
more on direct evidence of individual data. 

It is only in late years that the value of genealogical re- 
searches to certain branches of scientific investigation has been 
realized. 

Among the publications of late years wherein genealogical 
research was an indispensable handmaid to scientific investgation. 
is that most valuable study by K. L. Dugdale. of the patholog}- of 
social disorders, entitled ''The Jukes.'" This study, while an 
imjiortant contiibution to penological science, is also of extreme 
interest to students inteiest^d in heieditv. 



Anniversary Address by Gen. Greely. 25 

It is well to recall for those unfamiliar with "The Jukes," 
that it is the veritable social history of Max Jukes (an assumed 
name) and his decendants for five generations in all, whose 
idleness, pauperism and crime cost, in seventy-five years, the 
estimated sum of $1,308,000. With inter-marriages they num- 
bered some twelve hundred individuals, the best known to the 
general public being Ada, often called "Margaret, the mother of 
criminals." While only 709 of the family could be followed in 
their careers, yet the social condition of the family may be judged 
from the following percentages: children, 23.5 illegitimate; 
marriageable women, 52.4 unchaste ; all families, 29.0 paupers, 
79.4 without trade and 56.5 diseased, malformed or injured. The 
data relative to intemperance and crimes against property or 
person are equally startling. 

The study, as outlined by Mr. Dugdale, was one of historico- 
biographical synthesis united to statistical analysis, a method 
enabling him to estimate the cumulative effects of any condition 
operating through successive generations. Heredity furnished 
the original characteristics of the individual, and environment 
provided events and conditions that contributed to shape the 
individual career or defiect its primitive tendency. The principal 
forms of heredity, consanguinity and crossing, and the opposing 
phases of environment that tend to moral elevation or debasement 
are considered under the unusual conditions of an unchanged 
habitat. 

The history of the Jukes family appears to indicate that 
heredity is the preponderating factor in limiting and determining 
the mental and physical capacity of the individual, and thus 
definitely shapes the career, — this condition being most assured 
when the organization is structurally modified or organically 
weak, as in many diseases. 

Dugdale ventures the generalization "that environment is the 
ultimate controlling factor in detei^mining careers, placing heredi- 
ty itself as an organized result of invariable environment. The 
permanency of ancestral types is only another demonstration of 
the fixity of the environment within limits which necessitate the 
development of tjYin] characteristics." (P. 60). 

A most interesting addition to medical lore, wherein the argu- 
ment depended on genealogical studies, formed a valuable paper 
presented several years since, in 1885, I think, to the National 
Academy of Sciences by the distinguished inventor and scientist. 



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Alexander Graham Bell. It showed quite conclnsirely. by the 
aid of a genealogical chart, the cumulative and deteriorating 
effect towards deaf-mutism arising from intermarriages among 
those affected as to speech, hearing or eyesight. It so chanced 
that the families under investigation resided for generations on 
certain islands, which rendered easier the genealogical researches 
and also continued the descendants under practically the same 
environment as prior generations, and thus facilitated the com- 
plete development of inherited physical defects. 

In passing it may be said that the intricacy and number of the 
degrees of blood, between the individuals under consideration, 
were such that Mr. Bell was obliged to detennine their consan- 
guinity mathematically, and in connection therewith devised a 
working plan, which was also presented to the Academy by him. 
under the title of '"A Notation of Kinship."' The notation ap- 
peared so simple and satisfactory that I have urged that it be 
given to the public, and Mr. Bell has promised to do so at an 
early day. 

Perhaps in no branch of literature has the spirit of modem 
progress wrought a greater change than in the line of biography. 
In ancient times, and indeed until a very recent period, biography 
was confined almost entirely to rulers, priests and soldiers, whose 
careers furnished opportunities of associating therewith the 
striking historical events connected with their country and 
period. The historical sequence was rigidly adhered to, the 
character rarely analyzed, and the inspiring motives or ultimate 
objects of the man's Hfe and ambition infrequently dwelt on. As 
the king was the state, so were the various activities of the people 
inextricably interwoven into the life and history of their ruler, be 
he the king himself or the power behind the throne, oft so potent 
and ni-concealed. In short, the biographers of olden time wi-ote 
strictly of the king or warrior, the priest or the philosopher, the 
orator or the saint, as the case might be, but never simply of the 
man. When Vasari wrote his '"Lives of the Painters," his Tvrit- 
ings formed an epoch in biography ; but he was still far from the 
modem conception of this line of historical research, which de- 
pends upon the obvious truth of the saying that the highest 
study of mankind is of man himself. With the development of 
the American idea which raised individual man to the dignity of 
the true political unit, the world has come to realize that the his- 
torv of individual man furnishes the most fruitful field for the 



Anniversary Address by Gen. Greely. 27 

divination of the spirit of the age, both as regards its evolu- 
tionary changes and as to the subjective motive of its aspirations 
and ideals. 

The new school of biography is scarcely a century old, and 
may perhaps be not inappropriately said to have been created by 
the philosophic and reflective writings of Goethe, the startling 
confessions of Rousseau, and the gossiping but intensely interest- 
ing memoir of Johnson by Boswell. From that period, biograj^hy 
may be considered to have gradually develoi^ed into its present 
essentially humanitarian phase, wherein we declare it to be excel- 
lent only so far as it treats of the man himself. This line of 
treatment, a century since, was not considered as being real 
contributions to history, which then consisted, practically, of a 
list of the kings and queens and their parasitic followers, 
supplemented by a record of treaties made and broken, and of 
battles lost and won. 

The extraordinary poverty of history as formerly written was 
only obvious when Macaulay, with his unusual literary knowl- 
edge, put forth his history of England. Its success was assured 
from the commencement, and its circulation has never been 
equalled. His method of intermingling accounts of great and 
public affairs with personal descriptions of historical figures, and 
overlaying all with a wealth of detail as to the common life of 
other centuries, was freely declared by the old school to be un- 
worthy of a historian's pen and to detract from the dignity of 
history itself. It was, however, the true method, for history has 
little or no excuse save for the lessons it teaches and the ideals it 
inspires. The value of any history, as indeed of biography or 
any other book, depends upon its being put to use. The reading 
class, which to that time had depended largely for its stock of 
history upon scandalous memoirs of the court, or on so-called 
historical romances, turned with a sense of relief to this history 
into which was interjected such an extraordinary wealth of mat- 
ters pertaining to man. At home in English and foreign litera- 
ture, familiar with administrative affairs, versed in political lore, 
with a versatile and omnivorous mind stored with vast quantities 
of antiquarian lore, Macaulay lost no opportunity of illuminating 
therewith his historical essays. If in later years his style is criti- 
cised, his statements questioned and his judicial qualities dis- 
trusted, yet there remains an unquestioned debt to Macaulay for 
his innovation in historical methods which has culminated in a 



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class of invaluable contiibxitions to the knowledge of the world, of 
which Greene's "History of the English People " was the first. 

It has been well said that the greatest possible good from his- 
torical researches is the enthusiasm that they excite in readers 
and students. For the select few the study of the initiation, evo- 
lution and downfall of a great nation may be capable of develop- 
ing a spirit or purpose that may be beneficial to the human race 
or the individual man. But life is to-day so tilled with possibili- 
ties and the contiictiug demands of business, pleasure, and duties 
towards humanity are so pressing, that brief time remains for that 
intellectual culture which is the unrealized dream of many a per- 
son's nfe. 

In this extremity, biography particularly lends itself as a 
facile means of recreation and insti-uctiou, and as a soiu'ce of 
inspiration. Each human life has an individual ideal, and the 
exti'aordinary wealth of modern biography makes it possible for 
every man or woman to find in some few books the history of a 
human life, intenvoven with such lines of high thought, heroic 
action or holy aspii'ation as command sympathy, stimulate effoit 
and often incite to nobler life. In modem biographies the plan is 
now quite general of considering each life as the partial embodi- 
ment of an ideal, a i^lan which is exti-emely favorable to historical 
truth. The true biogi-apher no longer considers himself as a par- 
tisan advocate pledged to exaggerate the merits and ignore or 
deny the shortcomings of his subject. The ideal which underlies 
the life is properly presented with all its beauty, dignity or nobO- 
ity, and the biogi-apher, acknowledging human imperfections, 
expresses in turn his admiration of successes, his sympathy with 
failirres and his regret at shortcomings. Through it all the aspira- 
tion of the individual soul is the dominant tone of the work, in 
which the incidents of a human life seinre as a subordinate theme 
by illustrating the inherent imperfections of humanity, in its 
strenuous efforts to comprehend, formulate and develop its loftiest 
ideals. 

Indeed, were it not for biography, the greater part of that 
which is hopeful for the human race, in lessons drawn fi'om the 
past and aspirations for the future, would be practically ignored 
and inaccessible. Neglecting the host of industrial inventions and 
scientific discoveries, with their special lines bound up to a great 
extent in the life of a single man, it may be pointed out that most 
of the gi-eat moral and social reforms of the past century have 



Anniversary Address hy Gen. Greely. 29 

been the growth and outcome of individual initiation and effort. 
Take the question of prison refonns, for instance, forever insejoar- 
ably connected with the life of John Howard, philanthropist; and 
the labors of Gallaudet, so intimately associated with the giving 
to the deaf and dumb of a new intellectual life. In later years, 
Dorothy Dix wrought in civilized countries an entire revolution 
for the insane and demented, and the legislative labors of Peel are 
synonymous with the repeal of the com laws and of the laborer s 
"bread unleavened with injustice." 

Before this audience it is needless to enlarge this list of men 
and women, whose names must always stand for ref onn of some 
kind, and whose lives have a biographical value as representing 
the uplifting efforts of individual man to ideals rei^resenting 
truth, goodness and justice. Doubtless each and every one pres- 
ent has in mind some wi-ong which should be righted, some plan 
that should be matured, some line of noble thought that should 
blossom and develop into beneficent fruitage for coming genera- 
tions ; and to each and every such the story of some human effort 
would surely give new confidence, strength and determination. 

There are four distinct periods or epochs in American history, 
which shall furnish forth to tlie Plutarchs and Homers, the Livys 
and Vii'gils of the Twentieth Century, ample materials for future 
epics. First, the virile bands of adventurous men and self-sacri- 
ficing women, whose courage, foi'titude and enterprise transfomied 
virgin lowlands and primeval forests into a fruitful land, wherein 
in the space of a centuiy and a half nearly three millions of inde- 
pendent, God-fearing folk, of French, Teutonic and Scandinavian 
stock, acquii'ed a degree of freedom and affluence never before 
known to so numerous a body of men. 

Second, the breaking of the encircling line of French outposts 
that vainly strove to confine English-speaking colonies to the 
Atlantic water-shed, the resolute I'esistance to British aggression 
that culminated in American independence, and the restless 
energy that extended westward to the Pacific the knowledge and 
control of American statesmen and legislators. 

Third, the conquests of nature, the extension of commercial 
enteiprises, the development of natural resources, the astonish- 
ing progress of inventions, the perfection of industrial methods 
and the rapid increase of material wealth, wherefrom have 
groAvn the marvel of architectural beauty that lately aston- 
ished artistic doubters of democracy, and the grace of literary 



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art tliat equally commands the attention of the Old World. 

Finally, the terrible experiences of the great civil war, the 
first iiiterneoine strife in the world's history that proved l)enefi- 
cent equally to victor and vanquished, in that it transformed a 
heterogeneous body of contending and striving states into a gi'eat 
and indissoluble nation. 

The story of these triumphs over nature and cii'cumstance is 
yet to be adequately written in a series of biographies of the men 
whose brains conceived the ideas, whose genius transfomied them 
from thought to perfected action, and whose sagacity and courage 
knew how to preserve for their own generation and transmit to 
their posterity the benelicent marvels they had wrought. 

Each town has some spot rendered sacred by the deed of a 
heroic citizen who fought for its safety, counselled for its pros- 
perity or freedom, and periled his life in its behalf, so that in 
troublous times the history of some single individual would be an 
epitome of the history of the town itself. 

The conditions under which our American ancestors labored 
were such that time and inclination failed to record the dangers 
or dwell on the hardships inseparable from their labors. In the 
infrequent interludes of uneventful life their leisure hands found 
use for the unaccustomed qiiill, but in stress of intense action, 
when they were making history, "the busy hand forgot the pen," 
so that most of their daily "volumes are records less of fullness 
than of emptiness." In gathering up the scattered remnants of 
their thoughts and aspirations, in rescuing from oblivion tlie too 
meagre records of their deeds and actions, in weaving into the 
fabric of lasting prose and poetry vivid pictures of these men and 
women, thus preserving to time and an appreciative posteritj' the 
story of the representative lives of the founders of the greatest, 
wealthiest, freest and most jirogressive nation of recorded history, 
who shall dare say that the labors of the New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society are in vain ? 

Fortunate are we of American birth and American ancestry, 
for are we not of the class of whom Goethe said : "Happy is the 
man who recalls his ancestors mth pride, who treasures the story 
of their greatness, who tells the tale of their heroic lives, and with 
joy too full for speech realizes that fate has Uuked him with a race 
of goodly men." And although our ancestors could not leave their 
virtues to us, may not their memory at least incite in us an aspira- 
tion that we also may in some small way be a glory to posterity ? 



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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 

We, the subscribers, hereby certify that we have associated ourselves, in 
pursuance of Title \TI, Chapter XVIII, of Part I, of the Revised Statutes of the 
State of New York, for the purpose of promoting Genealogical and Biographical 
Science. 

The name by which the Society is to be known is "The New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Society." 

The particular business and objects of the Society are to discover, procure, 
preserve and perpetuate, whatever may relate to Genealogy and Biography, and 
more particularly to the genealogies and biographies of families, persons and 
citizens, associated and identified with the State of New York. 

The number of Trustees to manage the same shall be nine ; and the following 
are the names of the Trustees for the first year: Henry R. Stiles, M. D., David 
P. Holton, M. D., William Frederic Holcombe, M. D., Edward Chauncey Marshall, 
Seth Hastings Grant, Samuel Edward Stiles, Seymour Augustus Baker, D.D., 
Samuel Smith Purple, M. D., and Francis S. Hoffman. 

The business of this Society is to be conducted and its place of business 
located in the City of New York. 

HENRY R. STILES, M. D. [l. s.] 

DAVID PARSONS HOLTON, M. D. [l. s.] 

WILLIAM FREDERIC HOLCOMBE, M. D. [l. s.] 

EDWARD CHAUNCEY MARSHALL. [l. s.] 

SETH HASTINGS GRANT. [l. s.] 

SAMUEL EDWARD STILES. [l. s.] 

SEYMOUR AUGUSTUS BAKER. D.D. [l. s.] 

SAMUEL SMITH PURPLE, M. D. [l. s.] 



City and County of New York, ss.: 

On this sixteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
sixty-nine, before me personally appeared Henry R. Stiles, M. D., David P. 
Holton, M. D., William Frederic Holcombe, M. D., Edward Chauncey Marshall, 
Seth Hastings Grant, Samuel Edward Stiles, Seymour Augustus Baker, D.D., and 
Samuel Smith Purple, M. D., to me known to be the persons described in and 
who executed the within certificate, and severally acknowledged to me that they 
executed the same. 

A. OLDRIN SALTER, 

JVoiary Public, New York City. 
I approve of the within and allow the same to be recorded, March 25th, 1869. 

JOSIAH SUTHERLAND, 

'}:idgc of Supreme Court. 

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State of New York, 
City and County of New York 

I, Charles E. Loew, Clerk of the said City and County, and Clerk of the 
Supreme Court of said State for said County, do certify that I have compared the 
preceding with the original Certificate of Incorporation of the New York Genea- 
logical and Biographical Society, on file in my office, and that the same is a correct 
transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed 
[SEAL.] my official seal, this 2oth day of March, 1869. 

CHARLES E. LOEW, C/erJt. 



State of New York, ) 

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This is to certify that the Certificate of Incorporation of the " New Y'ork 
Genealogical and Biographical Society," with acknowledgment thereto annexed, 
was received and filed in this office on the 26th day of March, 1869. 

Witness my hand and seal of office of the Secretary of State at the City 
[seal.] of Albany, this twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight 

hundred and sixty-nme. 

D. WILLERS, Jr., 

Dep. Secretary of State. 




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As Amended February 7, 1895. 



I. — Name. 
The name of this Society shall be " The New York Genealogicai/ and 

BlOGBAPHICAi SOOIETT." 

II.— Objects. 

The objects of this Society shall be "to discover, prociire, preserve and per- 
petuate whatever may relate to Genealogy and Biography, and more particularly 
to the genealogies and biographies of families, persons and citizens associated and 
identified with the State of New York." 

First. — By meetings for the transaction of business, the interchange of views, 
the reading of appropriate papers, and for discussion relative to genealogy, biog- 
raphy, and kindred subjects. 

Second. — By the formation of a Library of Keference of such works on His- 
tory, Genealogy, Biography, and kindred subjects, both in printed and manuscript 
form, as may in any way contribute to the purposes of the Society. 

Third. — By correspondence with other societies of similar character, as well as 
with genealogists and local historians in this and other States of the Union, and in 
foreign countries. 

Fourth. — By the publication and dissemination, in such form and manner, and 
at such times as the Executive Committee of this Society may deem best, of gene- 
alogical and biographical material and information. 

III. — Membees. 

The Society shall consist of Kesident, Corresponding, Honorary and Life 
Members: Resident Members shall be those paying annual dues as hereinafter 
provided. 

Every person elected a Resident Member of the Society shall become such by 
signifying his acceptance to the Recording Secretary in writing, and paying his 
initiation fees and dues. 

No person residing within one hundred miles of the city of New York shall be 
elected a Corresponding Member, and all Corresponding Members upon coming to 
reside within the said hmit of one hundred miles of the city of New York shall 
cease to be a Corresponding Member and may become a Resident Member upon 
giving notice to the Recording Secretary and paying the initiation fee and dues as 
hereafter provided for Resident Members. 

When the number of Corresponding Members shall equal the number of Resi- 



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dent and Life Members, new Corresponding Members shall tbereafter only be 
elected to fill vacancies. 

Resident Members upon removal beyond the said limit of one hundred miles 
from the city of New York, whose dues shall have been fully paid, shall, on giving 
notice thereof to the Recording Secretary, and ex])ressing their desire in writing, 
become Corresponding Members — their claims taking precedence of all others — 
provided there exists any vacancies, otherwise they shall be Corresponding Mem- 
bers ex-officio, and shall succeed to the first vacancy among the Corresponding 
Members, in the order of their applications. 

Any Resident Member may withdraw at any time by certifying his intention 
of so doing to the Recording Secretary in writing, and paying all dues to the 
Treasurer. 

The Clerks of the several counties and townships of the State of New York, 
shall be Corresponding Members ex-officio. 

IV. — Fees and Dues. 

Each Resident Member shall on admission pay to the Treasurer ten dollars as 
an initiation fee and dues for the current year, and five dollars annually thereafter 
in advance, as dues; and if he neglect or refuse to pay said dues for two years suc- 
cessively, he shall forfeit his membership, unless the Board of Trustees shall other- 
wise direct. 

The annual dues shall be payable on the first day of January. 

The payment of fifty dollars for that purpose, by himself or others, shall con- 
stitute any Resident, Corresponding or Honorary Member, a Life Member of the 
Society, and said Life Member shall be free from assessments and entitled to all 
the rights and privileges of a Resident Member during his Ufe. 

The fees for Life Membership shall constitute a perpetual fund to be invested 
for building purposes by the Trustees; the annual interest of which may be used 
for current expenses. The principal of the fund to be appropriated for such build- 
ing purposes only by a three-fourths vote of the Board of Trustees. 

V. — Election op Membeks. 

Members shall be elected as follows: The candidates shall be proposed pub- 
licly at a meeting of the Society, by a member thereof, and the nominations, 
together with the name of the member making them, shall be entered on the 
minutes, and be referred to the Executive Committee. The Reports of that Com- 
mittee, recommending candidates for election, shall be openly read to the Society 
at a meeting siib.sequent to that at which the nominations were made; and if any 
member demaml a ballot, the election shall be by ballot, and five black balls shall 
exclude. If no ballot be demanded, the candidates so recommended shall be 
declared duly elected members of the Society. 

Corresponding or Honorary Members may, by a unanimous vote of the Board 
of Trustees, be elected without being proposed at a previous meeting. 

Life Members may be elected in the same manner, and admitted to all the 
privileges of Resident Members, on the payment of the fee required by Article IV. 

All certificates of membership shall be signed by the President and the 
Recording Secretary. 



By-Laws. 37 

VI. — Government. — Election of Teustees. 

The government of the Society shall be vested in a Board of nine Trustees, to 
be chosen by the Society, as hereinafter provided, by ballot, on the second Friday 
of January in each year, of -nhich election notice shall be given at least two days 
previous thereto in a newspaper published in the city of New York . The Board 
shall elect its own officers. 

None but Kesident and Life Members who have paid their dues to the Society, 
shall be allowed to vote at any meeting of the Society, or hold the office of Trustee. 

At the annual meeting of the Society, held on the second Friday of January in 
each year, there shall be elected three Trustees to fiU the places of the Trustees 
whose term shall then expire, and who shall hold office for three years or imtil 
their successors shall be elected. Any Trustee appointed to tLU a vacancy shall 
hold his office for the balance of the term of the Trustee to whose place he shall be 
so appointed. 

In case any election for Trustees shaU not be held at the time above appointed, 
such election may be held at the next regular meeting of the Society, or at any 
special meeting called for that purpose, in the manner hereinbefore mentioned; 
and the Trustees elected at such meeting shall hold their offices for the same terms 
as if they had been elected at the meeting at which such election should have taken 
place. 

The Trustees shall have custody of all buildings, funds, securities, and collec- 
tions belonging to the Society; shall fix all salaries to be paid to its officers; and 
shall have in their hands the entire control and regulation of its affairs, in the 
intervals between the Annual Meetings. They shall fill vacancies occurring in the 
Board during the year; and they shall meet for the election of officers and other 
business on the afternoon of the Tuesday immediately following the annual meeting 
of the Society and shall also meet on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of April, 
June and October in each year, and as much oftener as they shall deem necessary, 
or shall be called together by the President or any five members of the Board. 
The Trustees may declare the place of any member of the Board vacant who shall 
be absent from three successive meetings of the Board without sending a reason- 
able excuse therefor to the Becording Secretary. 

VII. — Officers. 

The Officers and Standing Committees of the Society shaU be elected annu- 
ally, on the Tuesday immediately follo^-ing the annual meeting of the Society, 
from the Resident and Life Members of the Society, by the Board of Trustees; 
and may be from their own number. They shall be: a President, two Vice- 
Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a Becording Secretary, a Treasurer, a 
Librarian, and a Registrar of Pedigrees; 

An Executive Committee of four members. 

A Publication Committee of five members; and 

A Committee on Biographical Bibliography, of three members. 

Vni. — Meetings. 

The Society shall meet in the City of New York, in the afternoon or evening 
of the second Friday in each month, except June, July, August, and September, 



38 The New York Genealogical and Biograph ical Society. 

anil at such other times as the Board of Trustees shall appoint. Special meetings 
may be called, under the direction of the President, or at the written request of 
seven members of the Society. 

IX. — Order op Business. 

The order of proceedings at the meetings, unless otherwise ordered, shall be: 

1. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting. 

2. Reports and communications from the officers of the Society; from the 
E.xecutive Committee; Reports of Special Committees. 

3. Election of members previou.sly proposed. 

4. Nomination of new members. 

5. Transaction of miscellaneous liusiness. 

6. Papers read and addresses delivered. 

The latter, when previously appointed, or any other special order, shall take 
precedence of any topic involving debate. 

X. — Quorum. 

Seven members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at 
any meeting of the Society. 

XI. — Presiding Officer. 

The President, or in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, or in their 
absence a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Trustees and 
of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall preserve order, and shall 
decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal. He shall also appoint all com- 
mittees authorized by the Trustees or by the Society, unless othenvise specially 
ordered. 

XII. — CORRESPONDINQ SECRETARY. 

The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the 
Society. He shall, at every meeting of the Society, report such letters and com- 
munications as he may have received; he shall prepare all letters to be written in 
connection with the business or objects of the Society, and tran.smit the same; but 
the Executive Committee may appoint a committee to prepare a letter or letters, 
on any special occasion. He shall keep, in suitable books, to be provided for that 
purpose, true copies of all letters ■nTitten on behalf of the Society, and shall care- 
fully preserve said copies, with the originals of all letters and communications 
received, and shall deposit the same in the Library. 

XIII. — Recording Secretary. 

The Recording Secretary shall have the charge of the Seal, Charter, By-Laws 
and Records of the Trustees and the Society. He, together with the presiding 
officer, shall certify all acts of the Trustees and of the Society. He shall notify all 
members of their election, and of such other matters as shall be directed by the 
Society or Trustees, and shall transmit to them their proper diplomas or certifi- 
cates of membership. He shall give due notice of the time and place of all meet- 
ings of the Trustees and of the Society, and shall attend the same. He shall keep 
fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Trustees and of 
the Society; and shall give notice to the several officers, and to the Executive and 



By-Laws. 39 

other Committees, of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Trustees 
and of the Society, affecting them, or appertaining to their respective duties, and 
shall furnish a brief statement of the proceedings of the Society at its stated meet- 
ings to the Publication Committee to be printed in the periodical publication of 
the Society. 

XIV. — Tkeasubek. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of the Society; 
and so often as these funds shall amount to fifty dollars, they shall be deposited in 
some bank in the city of New York to the credit of "The New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society," and shall be drawn thence on the check of the Treas- 
urer, countersigned by the President of the Board of Trustees and the Recording 
Secretary for the purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds shall be set 
apart the Building Fund, the Life Membership Fund, and others specially desig- 
nated by the donors, to be invested by the Trustees, and from the balance he 
shall pay such sums only as may be ordered by the Board of Trustees or by the 
Executive Committee out of the appropriations made by the Board. He shall keep 
a true account of his receipts and payments; and at each meeting of the Committee 
or of the Board, and at the Annual Meeting of the Society, shall render the same 
in writing, at or before which time the Executive Committee shall audit his 
accounts. 

If, from the report of the Treasurer, there shall appear to be a balance against 
the Treasury, irrespective of the special funds, no appropriation of money shall be 
made for any object but the necessary current expenses of the Society, until such 
balance shall be paid. 

XV. — Librarian. 

The Librarian, in connection with the Executive Committee, shall have the 
charge and superintendence of the Library, and the care and aiTangement of the 
books, manuscripts and other articles belonging to the Society. He shall cause to 
be prepared and kept, a proper catalogue and list of the same. He shall acknowl- 
edge the receipt of donations to the Society in his department. He shall expend 
in the purchase of books and other articles, and for their safe-keeping and preserva- 
tion, at the direction of the said Committee, such smns of money as shall from 
time to time be appropriated for that purpose, and report thereon to the Executive 
Committee, and to the Board at each of its regular meetings. He shall, at least 
once in each year, in the month of December, render his accounts for such pur- 
chases and expenditures to the Treasurer for settlement; and shall further make to 
the Society, at each Annual Meeting, a full report on the condition and progress 
of the Library and collections. 

XVI. — LiBEAET EEGUIiATIONS. 

The following shall be the regulations for the use of the Library : 

1. No book or manuscript shaU at any time be lent to any person to be 
removed from the Library, except for review in the periodical publication of the 
Society. 

2. No manuscript in the Library, nor any paper read before the Society and 
deposited in its archives, shall be published, except by the order of the Trustees, 
or with the consent of the Executive Committee. 



40 The New York Genealogical and BiograpJiical Society. 

3. The hours during which the Library shall be open, shall be determined 
from time to time by the Board of Trustees. 

4. During such hours, any member of the Society may have free access to con- 
sult any book or manuscript, except such as may be designated by the Executive 
Committee, and to make extracts from the same, under the authority of the 
Librarian. Any person not a member may obtain the like privilege of consulta- 
tion for one month from the President or Librarian, if known to them, or upon the 
recommendation of some other member to whom the applicant is known. But no 
person, not a member, shall be permitted to make extracts from the manuscripts of 
the Society, excepting the donors or depositors of the same, without special author- 
ity from the Executive Committee. 

5. It shall be the duty of the Librarian, or his assistant, to report to the 
Executive Committee any injury done to any book or manuscript by any person 
consulting the same; and the said Committee may, at their discretion, lay such 
reports before the Board. For any such injury, the person doing it shall make 
.such pecuniary compensation as the said Committee shall judge proper; and if he 
be not a member, tbe Committee shall have power to prohibit him from further 
access to the Library. 

6. The Librarian shall allow the Publication Committee to take to their offices 
or residences such books as they shall desire to review, under such regulations as 
the Board of Trustees shall from time to time prescribe. 

7. Members of the Society and persons having the privilege of using the books 
in the Library will, in all cases, call on the Librarian or his assistant for such book 
as they may wi.sh to consult, such book to be returned to the Librarian before the 
closing of the Library. 

8. The names and residences of aU persons who may be introduced to the 
Library shall be entered in a book to be kept by the Librarian and his assistant for 
that purpose, on each visit, with the name of the member by whom he may be 
introduced. 

XVII. — Kegistbae of Pedigrees. 

The Registrar of Pedigrees shall have the custody of all pedigi'ees presented 
by the members of the Society, and of additions thereto. 

He shall cause a copy of all such pedigrees, when accepted by the Society, to 
be entered in a book to be called the Register of Pedigrees, and shall certify the 
same; which Register shall be deposited with the Librarian, and shall be ojjened 
for the inspection of members only. 

The Registrar, with the President and Recording Secretary, shall sign all cer- 
tificates of pedigrees. He shall also certify all transcripts from the Register. 

XVIII. — Esj:cutive Committee. 

It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to collect and receive gifts for 
the Society; to provide for its literary or other exercises; to recommend plans, and 
make the necessary arrangements, for promoting its objects; to digest and prepare 
business; to securely invest Life Membership and other special funds; to authorize 
the disbursement and expenditure of moneys in the Treasury, out of the general 
appropriations made by the Board of Trustees, for the payment of salaries, current 
expenses, fitting up the Library, the ordinary purchase of books, binding, print- 



By-Laws. 41 

ing, and other necessaiy outlays. They shall, in connection with the Librarian, 
have charge of the arrangement and regulation of the Library and collections ; and 
shall have authority at any time to examine into the condition of the same, and 
into the state of the finances; as also generally to superintend the interests of the 
Society, and execute all such duties as may from time to time be committed to 
them by the Board. 

They shall meet at least once in every month, excepting the months of June, 
July, August and September, immediately before the meeting of the Society, and 
at the same place, if no other be appointed, and shall keep accurate minutes of all 
their transactions, and appoint their own chairman and secretary. 

XIX. — Publication Committee. 

It shall be the duty of the Publication Committee to take charge of and man- 
age the editing, printing and publishing of the quarterly magazine issued by the 
Society, known as the " New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," and 
all matters connected therewith, and also all books, pamphlets, and other matter 
printed or published by the Society. 

XX. — Committee on Biogbaphioai BiBiaoGEAPHy. 
It shall be the duty of the Committee on Biographical Bibliography to pre- 
pare, and continue by additions thereto, a catalogue or list of books and pamph- 
lets containing biographies or biographical sketches of citizens of the State of 
New York, and to give a brief description oi each such book or pamphlet and 
number the same so that it can be easily refeiTed to. 

XXI. — AliTEE.\TI0N OF Bt-LaWS. 

No alteration in .the By-Laws of the Society shall be made, unless such altera- 
tion shall have been openly proposed at a previous meeting of the Trustees, 
entered on the minutes, with the name of the Trustee or Trustees proposing the 
same, and shall be adopted by a majority of the members of the Board. And iu 
case of such proposed amendment, the Recording Secretary shall be required to 
accompany the notice for the next meeting of the Board with a copy of the pro- 
posed amendment, and a notice that the same will be acted upon at the meeting 
for which the notice was given. 




ypt. — >^ 



OFFICERS AND COnniTTEES. 
i895. 



President, 

First Vice-President, 

Second Vice-President, 

Recording Secretary, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Treasurer, 

Librarian, 

Registrar of Pedigrees, 



James Grant Wilson. 
Samuel S. Purple. 
RuFus King. 
Thomas G. Evans. 
Newland Maynard. 
William P. Ketcham. 
Richard H. Greene. 
William G. Ver Planck. 



JEjecutive Committee. 

Ellsworth Eliot, Chairman. 

Philip Rhinelander, Isaac Townsend Smith, 

Theodore Sutro. 



IPublication Committee. 



Richard H. Greene, Chairman. 



Beverley R. Betts, 
Thomas G. Evans, 



John V. L. Pruyn, 
Samuel S. Purple. 



Committee on Biograpbical Bibliograpbs. 

Theophylact B. Bleeckek, Chairman. 
HowLAND Pell, Philip R. Voorhees. 



Class of i8g6. 

Samuel Burhans, Jr., 
James J. Goodwin, 
Edmund A. Hurry, 



3Boar5 of trustees. 

Class of 1897. 

Richard H. Greene, 
Samuel S. Purple, 
James Grant Wilson, 



Class of 1898. 
Henry T. Drowne, 
Thomas G. Evans, 
Frederick D. Thompson. 



OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES. 
1869=1895. 



presi&ents. 



Henry Reed Stiles . . . 1S69-1872 
Edward Floyd De Lancey 1873-1876 
George Sears Greene . . 1877-1880 



Henry Thayer Drowne 
James Grant Wilson . . 



1881-1885 
1886- 



jftrst \Dice=lPresiJ>euts. 



David Parsons Holton, 1869-1870 
Edmund Bailey O'Calla- 

GHAN 1871 

Edward Floyd De Lancey 1872 
SiLVANUs Jenkins Macy . . 1873 



Edmund Bailey O'Calla- 

ghan 1874-1877 

Henry Thayer Drowne . 1878-1S80 
Ellsworth Eliot .... 1881-1892 
Samuel Smith Purple . . 1893- 



SeconS lt)ice=lpresf&ents. 



Seymour Augustus Baker 
Charles Benjamin Moore 
Edward Floyd De Lancey 
Sylvanus Jenkins Macy 
George Sears Greene . 
Henry Thayer Drowne 
Ellsworth Eliot, . . . 



1869 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1873-1876 

1877 

1878-1880 



James Grant Wilson 
George Sears Greene 
James Grant Wilson . 
Henry Reed Stiles . 
Samuel Smith Purple 
RuFus King 





I88I- 


I8S2 




1883 






1884- 


1885 




1886-18S7 




1888- 


1892 




1893- 





GorresponMng Secretaries. 



William Frederic Hol- 

combe 1869-1871 

Charles Benjamin Moore . 1872-1881 
Henry Reed Stiles . . . 1882-1885 

RuFus King 1886-1887 

Roswell Randall Hoes . 1888 



Gerrit Hubert Van Wag- 

ENEN 1889 

Roswell Randall Hoes . 1890-1891 
Edmund Abdy Hurry . . 1892-1893 
Xewland Maynard . . . 1894- 



Officers and Trustees, 1869-1895. 



45 



IRecor&ing Secretaries. 



Samuel Edward Stiles . . i86g 
John Stagg Gautier . . . 1870-1871 
Elliot Sandford .... 1871-1S72 
Martin Hawley Stafford 1873-1875 
Charles Carroll Dawson 1875 
Edmund Abdy Hurry . . 1876 



William Rewsen Mulford 1879 
Frederick Diodati Thomp- 
son 1880 

Joseph Outerbridge Brown 1881 
Alrick Hubbell Man . . 1882-1884 
Oliver Edward Coles . . 1885-1886 



Rufus King 1877-1878 Thomas Grier Evans 



1886- 



Samuel Smith Purple . 

Rufus King 

George Henry Butler . 



■^treasurers. 

1869-1877 Alexander Isaac Cotheal 1883-1884 

1878-1880 George Henry Butler. . 1885-1892 

1881-1882 William Platt Ketcham . 1892- 



Xibrarians. 



William Frederic Hol- 

COMBE 1869-1870 

Seth Hastings Grant . . 1871-1872 
Henry Reed Stiles . . . 1873 
Joseph Outerbridge Brown 1874-1S76 
Joseph Henry Petty . . . 1877 



Walter Carey Tuckerman 1878 
Samuel Burhans, Jr. . . . 1879-1888 
Beverley Robinson Betts 1889 
Gerrit Hubert Van Wag- 

ENEN 1890-1893 

Richard Henry Greene . 1893- 



IRegistrars of pe&igrees. 

Samuel Edward Stiles . 1871-1873 Clarence WinthropBowen 1887-1888 

Beverley Robinson Betts 1874-1876 Arthur Wentworth Hamil- 

Joseph Outerbridge Brown 1877-1880 ton Eaton 1889-1890 

William Remsen Mulford 1881-1883 Josiah Collins Pumpelly . 1891-1893 

Bayard Clarke, Jr 1884 Howland Pell 1894 

Joseph Outerbridge Brown 1885 William Gordon Ver 

Thomas Grier Evans . . . 1886 Planck J895- 



trrustees. 



Samuel Smith Purple . . 1869- 
Heny Reed Stiles. . . . 1869-1873 
William Frederic Hol- 
COMBE 1869-1872 



Ed.mund Abdy Hurry . . 1876-1879 

Rufus King 1877-1881 

Henry Thayer Drowne . 18S0- 
James Grant Wilson . . . 1882- 



46 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 



'trustees — Continued. 



Seth Hastings Grant . . 1869-1873 
Seymour Augustus Baker . i86q 
Samuel Edward Stiles . . 1869 
David Parsons Holton . . 1869-1883 

Ledyard Bill 1869-1870 

Francis Sylvester Hoff- 
man 1869 

George Sears Greene . . 1870 
Charles Benjamin Moore . 1870-1892 
John Stagg Gautier . . . 1870-1871 
John Jordan Latting . . . 1870-1886 
Martin Hawley Stafford 1871-1875 
Elliot Sandford .... 1872 
Matthew Darbyshire Bagg 1873 
Edward Floyd De Lancey 1873-1889 
Joseph Outerbridge Brown 1874-1881 
George Sears Greene . . 1874-1885 
Beverley Robinson Betts 1874-1876 



Ellsworth Eliot . . . 
Henry Reed Stiles . . 
Thomas Henry Edsall . 

RuFUS King 

Samuel Burhans, Jr. . . 
Edmund Abdy Hurry 
Thomas Clapp Cornell 
Jacob Wendell .... 
William Pitt Robinson 
Gerrit Hubert Van Wag 



ENEN 

William Thomas White 
James Junius Goodwin 
Frederick Diodati Tho.mp 

son 

Richard Henry Greene 
Thomas Grier Evans 



1S82 

I 883- I 887 

1884-1886 

1886-1888 

1887- 

1887- 

1888- I 894 

1889-1892 

1890-1892 

1892-1893 

1893 

1893- 

1893- 
1894- 
1895- 



COMMITTEES. 
1869 = 1895. 



iSrecutive Committee. 



Seth Hastings Grant . . 

Ledyard Bill 

William Frederick Hol- 

COMBE 

Samuel Edward Stiles 
George Sears Greene . . 
Charles Benjamin Moore 
Martin Hawley Stafford 
John Jordan Latting . . 
Elliot Sandford . . . . 
Charles Benjamin Moore 
Matthew Darbyshire Bagg 
David Parsons Holton 
Edmund Abdy Hurry 
Joseph Outerbridge Brown 
Isaac Francis Wood . . 
Charles Carroll Dawson 

RuFus King 

William Frederick Hol 

combe 

Ellsworth Elliot . . 
William David Schuyler 
George Henry Butler, 
Walter Carey Tuckerman 



1869-1871 Gerrit Hubert Van Wag- 

1869 enen 1879-1886 

Edmund Abdy Hurry . . 1880-1881 

1869-1872 George Henry Butler, . 1880 

1869 William Henry Lee . . . 1881-1882 

1870 Frederick Diodati Thomp- 

1870-1871 SON 1882-1889 

1871-1875 Alrick Hubbell Man . . 1883-1884 

1872 Amory Sibley Carhart . 1884-1885 

1872 Thomas Grier Evans . . 1885-1887 

1873 Thomas Asa Fletcher . . 1887-1888 
1873 James Renwick Gibson, Jr. 1888-1889 

1873 Edward Trenchard . . . 1889-1891 
1774-1876 William Platt Ketcham 1890-1892 

1874 Gerrit Hubert Van Wag- 

1873 enen 1890-1893 

1875 Richard Henry Greene 1892-1893 
1876-1878 HowLAND Pell 1892-1893 

Philip Randall Voorhees 1893-1894 

1876-1877 William Gordon Ver 

1877- Planck 1894 

1877 Isaac Townsend Smith . . 1894- 

1878 Theodore Sutro .... 1895- 
1878-1879 Philip Rhinelander . . . 1S95- 



Henry Reed Stiles . 
Seth Hastings Grant 
John Stagg Gautier . 
Samuel Smith Purple 
John Jordan Latting 
Elliot S.\ndford . . 



D>ublication Committee. 

. 1870-1873 Charles Benjamin Moore 1874-1887 

. 1870-1873 Beverley Robinson Betts 1875-1883 

. 1870-1871 Henry Reed Stiles , . . 1883-1887 

. 1872- James Grant Wilson . . . 1884-1889 

. 1872-1886 Beverley Robinson Betts 1887- 

. 1874-1S76 Edward Floyd De Lancey 1888-1894 



48 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 



ipUbllcatiOn Q.OX\\m\XXZZ~Continued. 



Thomas Grier Evans . . t888- 
WiLLiAM Pitt Robinson . 1890-1 
Cephas Brainerd .... 1892 
William Thomas White . 1893 



Edmund Adby Hurry . . 1894 
Richard Henry Greene . 1895- 
JOHN Van Schaick Lansing 
Pruyn 1895- 



Committee on JSiOGrapbical Ktblioorapbp. 



Charles Benjamin Moore . 1870-1893 
Ellsworth Eliot .... 1870 
Martin Hawley Stafford 1870-1873 
David Parson Holton . . 1871-1880 
Joseph Henry Petty . . . 1874-187S 
William Frederic Hol- 

COMBE 1879-1880 

Alrick Hubbell Man . . 1881-1883 



Thomas Henry Edsall . . 1884-1886 
Theophylact Bache 

Bleecker, Jr 1887- 

Henry Th.iyer Drowne . 1888-1894 
Theodore Melvin Banta . 1894 

HowLAND Pell '895- 

Philip Randall Voorhees 1895- 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 



February 27, 1869. 

Name. Residence. 

Seymour Augustus Baker, D.D. . Brooklyn . 

William Frederic Holcombe, New York . . 

M.D. 

David Parsons Holton, M.D. . . New York . 

Henry Reed Stiles, M.D New York . 

Samuel Edward Stiles, .... New York . 



Membership Ceased. 

Retired, i86g. 
Life Member, 1894. 

Died 6 June, 1883. 
Life Member, 1887. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1877. 



march 7, 1869. 

S.A.MUEL Smith Purple, M.D. . . . New York . 

Seth Hastings Grant New York , 

Edward Chauncey Marshall, New York 

A.M. 

Henry Delevan Paine, M.D. . . New York 

Martin Hawley Stafford . . . New York 



Life Member. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1872. 
Resigned May, i86g. 

Died II June, 1893. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1875. 



April 3, 1869. 

Samuel Bancroft Barlow, M.D. . New York 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1871. 
Died 28 Feb., 1876. 



April 10, 1869. 

Ledyard Bill New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1S71. 

George Sears Greene U. S. A 

Abram Oldrin Salter New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1869. 



may 1. 1869. 



Henry Marvin Benedict, A.B. . . 
Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, 

Ph.D., LL.D. 

WiLLARD L. Felt 

Francis K. Forward Holton, 

(Mrs. David P.) 
Sylvanus Jenkins Macy .... 
Edward Pavson Fowler, M.D. 

Henry M. Gardner, Jr 

Alexander Knox 

John Milton Bancroft .... 



Albany . . 


. Resigned 31 Dec, 1872 


Clinton . . 


. Died 18 Sept., 1889. 


New York . 


. Resigned 1871. 


New York . 


. Resigned 31 Dec, 1873 


New York . . 


. Life Member. 


New York . . 


. Resigned 12 May, 1873. 


Brooklyn . . 


. Retired 1869. 


New York . . 


. Retired 1878. 


New York . . 


. Retired 1869. 



50 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 



Name. Residence. 

Jonathan Marshall New York . 

John Jordan Latting New York . 

Charles Benjamin Moore . . . New York . 

Louis F. Warner, M.D New York . . 

William Kelly Rhinebeck . 

June 18. 1869. 

Elliot Sandford New York . . 

James Carson Brevoort .... Brooklyn . . 

-Samuel VVillard Bridgham . . New York . . 

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont . . . Brooklyn . . 

William Adams Reynolds . . . Rochester . . 

Othniel S. Williams Clinton . . . 

October 16, 1869. 

Joseph Henry Petty New York . . 

William Coventry Hope Waddell New York . . 

Ellsworth Eliot, M.D New York . 

Isaac Francis Wood, A.B New York . , 



Membership Ceased. 

Retired 1873. 
Died 16 Dec, i8go. 
Life Member. Died 

Dec, i8q3 
Life Member. 
Died 14 Jan. 1872. 



Resigned 1877. 
Life Member. 

Dec, 1877. 
Resigned. 
Died 28 March, 
Died— 
Died 17 May, li 



Resigned 1877. 
Died— 

Life Member. 



Died 7 



1888. 



William Franklin Coles 



October 30, 1869. 

. . . New York . 



John Stagg Guatier New York . 

Benjamin Jenkins Howland . . . New York . 



Life Member, 1871. 

24 Dec, 1881. 
Died 2 Oct., 1871. 
Died 9 Dec, 1874. 



Died 



November 13, 1869. 

Evelyn Pierrepont Bartow, (Rev.) New York . . . Retired 1870. 

Matthew Clarkson New York . . . Life Member. 

William Clarkson New York . . . Life Member. 

Elizabeth Clarkson Jay, Miss . New York . . . Life Member. 



Edward Floyd De Lancey 
William Walton Harper 



November 27, 1868. 

. New York . . 
. New York . . 



Life Member. 
Retired 1877. 



January 8, 1870. 

Charles Trinder Reynolds . . New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 
Woolsey Johnson, M.D New York . . . Resigned 1874. 



1874. 



Roll of Member ship. 51 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

AlfredEdgarMartindalePurdy, New York . . . Resigned 1S78. 

M.D. 

RoswELL Daniel Hatch .... New York . . . Resigned 1871. 

January 28, 1870. 

William Lambert Cogswell . . New York . . . Died— 

Edward Ruthven Purple . . . New York . . . Life Member. Died 20 

Jan., 1879. 

Robert Willetts New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1870. 

February 12, 1870. 

Edmund Philo Martin Brooklyn . . . Resigned 1871. 

February 86, 1870. 

Mrs. Leroy Newcomb Shear . . New York . . . Retired 1875. 

March 12, 1870. 

Walter Livingston Cutting . . New York . . . Retired 1872. 

Frederick Humphreys, M.D Retired 1878. 

March 26, 1870. 

Robert S. Dumont Morristown, N. J. Died 30 Dec, 1873. 

April 23, 1870. 

Joel Munsell Albany .... Life Member. Died 15 

Jan., 1880. 

Henry Nichol New York . . . Retired 1875. 

George Frederick Tuttle . . . New York . . . Retired 1872. 

May 14, 1870. 

Edward Holland Nichol . . . New York . . . Retired 1875. 

Almerin Henry Winslow .... Chicago, 111. . . Died 10 May, 1886. 



October 22, 1870. 

Matthew Darbyshire Bagg, A. M. New York . . 
Clifford Augustus Hand .... New York . . 



Resigned 27 June, 1877. 
Died I Jan., 1881. 



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November 12, 1870. 

Name. Residence. 

Charles Linxoln Livingston, . . New York . . 
Beverly Robinson Betts (Rev.) . New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 

Life Member. 31 Jan., 

1872. 
Life Member. 27 Dec, 

1893. 



November 26, 1870. 

Henry De Forest New York . . 

Charles Gerard Havens .... New York . . 
John Abeel Weeks New York . . 



Died 18 Nov., iS 
Died 7 Jan., 1888 



December 24, 1870. 

Theodorus Bailey Myers . . . New York . . 



Died 16 June, 1888. 



January 14, 1871. 

Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Life Member, 1877. Died 

M.D., LL.D. 27 May, 18S0. 

February 25, 1871. 

Henry G. Coggeshall New York . . . Died — 

James Thomas King New York . . . Retired 1874. 



April 22, 1871. 

Philip Livingston Van Rens- . New York 
selaer 



Died 10 March, 1873. 



May 13, 1871. 

Johnston Livingston New York . . 

Douglas Merritt New York . . 

October 28, 1871. 

George Read Mallorv .... New York . . 

Otis D wight Swan New York . . 

Benjamin Lincoln Swan (Rev) . . Oyster Bay, L. L 

Edmund Thomas Smith St. James, L. I. 

Abram Wakeman New York . . 

Thomas Ferdinand Youngs . . . New York . . 



Life Member. 
Life Member. 



Retired 1874. 
Retired 1876. 
Resigned I July, 1876. 
Retired 1876. 
Retired 1876. 
Retired 1879. 



Roll of Membership. 



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November 11, 1871. 

Name. Residence. 

Henry Joel ScuDDER, A.M., LL.D., New York . 

January 13, 1872. 

Charles Ludlow Livingston . . New York . 



Membership Ceased. 

Resigned 31 Dec, 187S. 
Died 1883. 



Life Member. Died 1873. 



February 10, 1872. 

John Divine Jones New York . . . Life Member. 

February 24, 1872. 

Joseph Edmund Buckley .... New York . . . Resigned 10 June, 1877. 



May 11, 1872. 

Richard Hartshorne Bowne . . New York 

may 25, 1872. 

Joseph Outerbridge Brown . . . New York 



Life Member. 1880. Died 
1881. 



Died 5 May, iS 



June 8, 1872. 

Robert Safford Hale, LL. D. . . New York . . 

November 23, 1872. 

Stuyvesant Fish Morris, M.D. . . New York . 



Resigned 28 Nov., 1879. 
Died 14 Dec, 1881. 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1875. 



February 8, 1873, 



Charles Thorn Cromwell . . . Rye . . . 
Thomas Addis Emmett, M.D. . . New York . 
Ethan Allen Doty Brooklyn . 



Died 1893. 

Resigned 31 Dec, 1S78. 



April 12, 1373. 

Edmund Abdy Hurry, A.M., LL.B. New York , 
Samuel William Johnson .... New York 
William Henry Helme Moore . New York 



Retired 1880. 
Life Member. 



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April S7, 1873. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

Abraha.m Sutton Underhill . . New York . . . Died 13 Dec, 1881. 

May 24, 1873. 

John Adriance New York . . . Died 3 Nov., 1874. 

Charles Edward Strong, A.M., . New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1878. 

June 14. 1873. 

Edgar Ketcham New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1877. 

March 11. 1874. 

MoREV Hale Bartow New York . . . Life Member, 1881. Died 

24 Dec, 1887. 
May 13, 1874. 
Samuel Peters Bell New York . . . Died 1892. 

May 87, 1874. 

Bache McEvers Emmett, M.D. . New York . . . Resigned 22 Dec, 1875. 

George Landon Ingraham, LL. B. New York . . . Retired 1886. 

Stephen Whitney Phoenix . . . New York . . . Life Member. Died 3 

Nov., 1881. 
Egbert Lodevickers Viele . . New York . . . Retired 1878. 

June 10, 1874. 

Maturin Livingston Delafield . New York . . . Life Member. 

John Buckley, Jr New York . . . Retired 1876. 

John Lawrence Eustice .... New York . . . Resigned 24 Dec 1877. 

RuFUS King Yonkers . . . 

June S4, 1874. 

Lewis B. Brasher New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1875. 

Marshall Paddock Stafford . . New York . . . Retired 1879. 
Thomas Lawrence Wells . . . New York . . Retired 1875. 

October 28, 1874. 

Isaac John Greenwood .... New York . . . 

Spencer D. Schuyler New York . . Retired 1876. 



Roll of Membership. 55 

November 22, 1874. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

George H. Brewster New York . . . Retired 1884. 

William Poillon New York . . . Life Member, 1893. 

William David Schuyler, M.D. . New York . . . Died 31 Dec, 1887. 

Charles Carroll Dawson . . . New York . . . Resigned 14 March, 1877. 

Solomon Townsend Oyster Bay, L. I. Died 2 April, 1880. 

January 27. 1875. 

Francis Tillou New York . . . Died 18 April, 1876. 

February 24, 1875. 

James WooLSEY Palmer, Jr. . . New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1876. 

AprU 14, 1875. 

Henry Thayer Drowne New York . . . Life Meniber. 

May 12, 1875. 

John Ward New York . . . Resigned 31 Dec, 1891. 

Isaac Walker Maclay .... New York . . . Resigned Sept., 1888. 

June 9, 1875. 

MoNTGO.MERY Roosevelt Schuyler New York . . . Retired 1877. 

November, 1875. 

Bentley Douglas Hasell . . . New York . . . Life Member. 

December 8, 1875. 

John N. Hecker New York . . . Retired 1877. 

December 22, 1875. 

Richard Carman Coombes . . . New York . . . 

George Albert Halsey .... New York . . . Died April, 1874. 

April 12. 1876. 

Gerrit Hubert Van Wagenen . New York . . . Died 29 March, 1893. 
James Westervelt Quackinbush . Hackensack, N. J. Retired 1877. 



rtC) The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 

June 28, 1876. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

John Shrady, M.D New York . . . 

November 24, 1876. 

Fran'CIS Hustace, M. U New York . . . Resigned 24 Nov., 1882 

January 24, 1S77. 
AsAHEL Norton Brockway, M.D. . New York . . . Resigned 11 Dec, 1893. 

February 28, 1877. 

Walter Carey TucKERMAN . . . New York . . . Died 18 April, 1894. 

October 10. 1877. 
Frederick Diodati Thompson . . New York . . . Life Member. 

November 14, 1877. 

George Henry Butler, M.D. . . New York . . . Life Member, 1892. 
Alexander Isaac CoTHEAL . . . New York . . . Died 25 Feb., 1894. 
Charles H. House.man New York . . . Retired 1883. 

December 20, 1877. 

Gideon Lee Tooker New York . . . Retired 1879. 

Homer Crane Blake U.S.N. ... Died 21 Jan., 1880. 

March 27, 1878. 

Lyman Rhoades New York . . . Resigned 24 Feb., 1882. 

April 2, 1878. 
Benjamin Doughty Hicks . . . Old Westbury, L. L Resigned 31 Dec, 1880. 

April 23, 1878. 

Jacob Harsen Purdv, New York . . . Resigned 22 Jan., 1886. 

Benjamin Greene Arnold . . . New York . . Retired 1S81. Died 10 

Dec., 1894. 



Roll of Membership. 

November 14, 1878. 

Name. Residence. 

William Remsen MuLFORD (Rev.) New York . . 
Samuel Burhans, Jr New York . . 

January 8, 1880. 

Annie Elizabeth Boutecon Shep- New York . . 

ARD (Miss). 
Jay Sedgwick New York . . 

January 33, 1880. 

James Grant Wilson, D. C. L. . . New York . . 
Alrick Hubbel Man, New York . . 

February 13, 1880. 

Bayard Clarke, Jr New York . . 

Orlando Bronson Potter . . . New York . . 

March 36, 1880. 

Thomas Henry Edsall .... New York . . 

William Henry Lee New York . . 

Randolph Wanton Townsend . New York . . 

Seymour Rhodes New York . . 



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Membership Ceased. 
Life Member, 1887. 



Retired 1880 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1880. 



Life iVIember. 
Life Member, 1892. 



Life Member, 1893. 
Died 4 Jan., 1894. 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1S87. 
Died 9 April, 1895. 

Resigned 31 Dec, 1880. 



May 14. 1880. 

William Loring Andrews . . . New York 



Resigned 22 April, 1887. 



December 34, 1880. 

Elias William Van Voorhis . . New York . . 

Cornelius Vanderbilt .... New York . . 

Caroline Gallup Reed (Mrs. Syl- New York . . 
vanus). 



Died 21 Sept. 1892. 



January 38, 1881. 

Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb New York . 

(Mrs. Charles A.). 
John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn Albany . . 



Died 3 Jan., 1893. 
Life Member, 1S91. 



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Name. 



February 11, 1881. 

RESIDEN'CE. 



John Jay New York . 

George H. Peabody New York . 

John Henry Pell, A. M New York . 



Membership Ceased. 

Died 5 May, 1894- 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1887. 



March 11, 1881. 

Daniel Hooglanu Carpenter Resigned 31 Dec, 1887. 



June 10, 1881. 

William Royce Allen New York . 



Died 13 Feb., 1883. 



November 11, 1881. 

Amory Sibley Carhart .... Brooklyn . . 

Edwards Hall, M.D New York . . 

Isaac Lawrence New York . . 



Life Member. 
Resigned 10 Dec, 1886. 



December 0, 1881. 

William Waldorf Astor . . . New York . 

Robert Forsyth Bixby New York . 

James E. Crane New York . 

Edward Livingston Ludlow . . New York . 

Theodore Roosevelt New York . 

Eugene Schieffelin New York . 

Morris Decker Stevens .... New York . 



Life Member. 
Life Member. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1885. 
Life Member. 
Resigned 15 Feb., 1890. 
Life Member. 



John Fitch 



may 26, 18SS. 

. . New York 



. Died I Sept., 18 



Ulay 11. 1883. 

Lkighton Williams (Rev), A.M. . New York . 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1889. 



February 8, 1884. 

Frank D'Aulte New York . 

George Washington Schuyler Ithaca, N. Y. 



Resigned 31 Dec, 
Died March 29, l8f 



October 24, 1884. 

Oliver Edward Coles Jersey City, N. J. Retired 1885. 

Thomas Grier Evans, New York . . . 



Roll of Membership. 



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January 23, 1885. 



Name. Residence. 

Isaac Parish Smith New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 



February 13, 1885. 

Thomas Asa Fletcher, D.D.S . . New York . . 



Frankli.«c Couch 



Blarch 13, 1885. 

. . . Peekskill . 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1885. 



March 27. 1885. 

Martha Bayard Dodd Stevens Castle Point, N. J. 

(Mrs. Edwin A.). 
Benjamin Hazard Field .... New York . . . Life Member. Died 

17 March, 1893. 



April 24. 1885. 

Samuel Oakley Vanderpool . . New York . 



Retired 1886. 



May 8, 1885. 

Frederick Erastus Hyde, M.D. . New York 



William Austin 



June 26, 1885. 

. . New York . 



January 7, 1886. 

William Thomas White, M.D. New York . 



Died 17 Sept., 1893. 



January 22, 1886. 

Edmund Samuel Foster Arnold, New York . 

M.D. 
Elbridge Thomas Gerry .... New York . 



Life Member. 



February 12. 1886. 

Allen Thorndyke Rice .... New York . . 

John Meredith Read New York . . 

Clarence Winthrop Bowen . . New York . . 
10 



Died 16 May, 1889. 
Life Member. 
Life Member. 



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November S6, 1886. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

Edgak De Valcourt Vermont, Tivoli .... Resigned 31 Dec, 1886. 

L.L. M. 
Theodore Melvin Banta . . . Brooklyn . . . 
TiiEOi'HYLACT Bache Bleecker, Jr. New York . . . 

December 10, 1886. 

James Renwick Gibson, Jr. . . . New York . . . Died 4 March, 1890. 
Charles Kellogg New York . . . Died 28 Oct., 1892. 

January 14, 1887. 

Raimund Von Horrum-Schramm, New York . . . Resigned Jan. 1889. 

LL. D. 

William Worthen Appleton . . New York . . . 

Daniel Appleton New York . . . 

April 22. 1887. 

Edward Braman Hyde Park . . 

October 14, 1887. 

Thomas Lincoln Casey . . . . U. S. A Resigned 20 April, 1889. 

William Pitt Robinson .... New York . . . 

October 28, 1887. 

Thomas Clapp Cornell .... Yonkers . . . Died 29 Dec, 1894. 

Jan. 13, 1888. 

Benjamin Doughty Hicks . . . . Old Westbury, L.I. Life Member. 

April 13, 1888. 

Roswell Randall Hoes (Rev.) .U.S.N. ... Resigned 31 Dec, 1890. 

April 27, 1888. 

John Silas White, LL. D New York . . . Resigned l Feb., 1892. 



Roll of Membership. 



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May 26, 1888. 

Name. Residence. 

Timothy Dix Bolles U. S. N. . . 

John Edwin Stilwell, M.D. . . New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 
Died 23 Aug., 1892. 



Jacob Wendell 



June 8, 1888. 

. . New York 



Life Member. 



October 12, 1888. 

Levi Parsons Morton New York . 

Jose Francis di Navarro, . . . New York . 

Thomas Powell Fowler .... New York . 

Floyd Clarkson New York . 

Alexander Mackay Smith (Rev.) New York . 

Isaac Townsend Smith New York . 

John Ward New York . 

John Pierpont Morgan .... New York . 

Henry Bergh New York . 



Life Member. 
Resigned 1891. 
Died 2 Jan., 1894. 
Resigned 17 Feb., 1893. 

Resigned 11 Dec, i8gi. 
Life Member. 
Resigned 6 Jan., 1891. 



November 9, 1888. 

Margaret Herbert Mather (Mrs. Bound Brook, N. J. Retired i8gi 

De WittC). 

Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger New York . 

Katharine Newton Youmans (Mrs. New York . 

Edward L.). 

David Bradley Lee New York . 

John Busteed Ireland New York . 

Edward Dale Applelon .... New York . 

Arthur Wentworth Hamilton New York . 

Eaton (Rev.). 

Charles Finney Clark .... New York . 

Bavard Tuckerman New York . 

Thomas Rutter New York . 

Edward Trenchard New York . 

Russell Sage New York . 



Died 29 Aug., 1894. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1890. 

Resigned 3 Dec, 1892. 

Resigned 22 May, 1893. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1891. 



November 23, 1888. 

Salem Howe Wales New York . . 

Hooper Cumming Van Vorst . . New York . . 

Alfred Ronald Conkling . . . New York . . 

William Gilbert Davies . . . New York . . 



Resigned Jan., 189c 
Died 26 Oct., 1889. 



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December 14, 1888. 



Name. Kesidence. 

F. Ml LIE Ketchum Platt Owen New York . . 

(Mks. Thomas J.). 

HiiKBERT De Nvse Lloyd .... New York . . 

VViLi>iAM Eakl Dodge New York . . 

Mary Macrae Stuart (Mrs. Rob- New York . . 

ERT L.). 

George Bliss • New York . . 

CoLLis Potter Huntington . . . New York . . 

Edward Francis Winslow . . . New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 
Life Member. 



Life Member. Died 30 
Dec, 1891. 



Life Member. 



December 21, 18S3 



Floyd Ferris 

George Hutchinson Smith (Rev.) 
Frederick Samuel Tallmadge . 
Frederick William Seward . . 
George Crawford Beekman . . 
Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater 

Cephas Brainerd 

Janet Van Rensselaer Townsend 

(Mrs. Howard). 
James Congdell Fargo . . . 
Charles Henry Ada.ms . . . 
Morris Ketchum Jesup . . . 
Cornelius Cornelissen Cuyler 
Samuel Decker Coyendall 
Charles Lytle Lamberton . . 



New York . 
New York . 

New York . 
Montrose . 
Freehold, N. 
Kingston . 
New York . 
New York . 

New York . 
New York . 
New York . 
New York . 
Rondout 
New York . 



Resigned 10 Jan., 1891. 



Resigned 31 Dec, i? 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1893. 

Life Member. 
Resigned 2 Jan., 1895. 



January 9, 1889. 

Beverley Oliver Kinnear, M.D. New York . 

George Frederick Cornell . . New York . 

Byam Kirby Stevens New York . 

Cornelius Bishop Smith, D.D. . . New York . 

Augustus Sidney Kidder .... New York . 



Retired 1889. 
Resigned 6 Feb., l8o4- 
Life Member. 

Retired 1880. 



January 11, 1S89. 

William Scudder Stryker . . . Trenton, N. J. 

Cortlandt Parker Newark, N. J. 

John Schureman Sutphen .... New York . 
Henry Hathorn Arthur .... New York . 
*\ViLLiAM Maison' Dubois .... White Plains . 
• Formerly named William Maison Skinner. 



Resigned 9 Jan., 1891. 
Resigned i5 Nov., 1892. 



Roll of Membership. 



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January 18, 1889. 

Name. Residence. 

Henry Gordon Marquand . . . New York . , 
James Roseburgh Leaming, M.D. . New York . 



Membership Ceased. 

Resigned i8 Jan., 1894. 
Died 5 Dec, 1892. 



February 1, 1889. 

John Herbert Claiborne, M.D. . New York . 
William E. Montgomery .... New York . . 



Resigned 13 Dec, 1894. 
Resigned 18 Jan., 1894. 



February 15, 1889. 

-Aurelia Davis SCHOONMAKER (Mrs. New York . 

Lucas E.). 
HjALMAR HjARTH BoYESEN . . . New York . 



. Retired \l 



March 1, 1889. 
Hiram Radcliff Romeyn .... New York . 



March 15, 1889. 

William Platt Ketcham, A.M., New York . . 

LL. B. 

Samuel Victor Constant .... New York . . 

Jerrie a. Van Auken Gloversville . 

April 13, 1889. 

Woolsey Rogers Hopkins . . . Stamford, Conn. 

Henry Lawrence Burnett . . . New York . . 

Robert Schell New York . . 

Francis Johnstone Hopson, A.M., New York . , 

LL. B. 

George Gosman De Witt, A.M., New York . . 

LL. B. 

Satterlee Swartwout Stamford, Conn. 

Inglis Stuart New York . . 

April 26, 1889. 

Arthur Brooks (Rev.), A.M. . . . New York . . 

May 84, 1889. 

Philip Sherwo<jd Smith .... Buffalo . . . 



Life Member. 
Retired 1891. 



Resigned i Feb., 1892. 
Resigned i Feb., 1892. 



Retired 1890. 
Resigned 29 June, 1892. 



Life Member. 



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October 35, 1889. 

Name. Residence. 

WiLLiA.M Ezra Ketcham (Rev) . . New York . . 

Robert Ludlow Fowler .... New York . . 

Anson Phelps Stokes New York . 

Frederick DePeyster Foster, . New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 

. Resigned g April, 1890. 
. Resigned 3 April, 1891. 



November 8, 1889. 

Cornelius Nevius Hoagland, M.D. Brooklyn, L. I. 

George West Van Siclen . . . New York . . 

Warner Van NoRDEN New York . . 

Catharine Rom ana Marsiglia New York . . 
Baetjer (Mrs. Herman). 

John Peter Haines New York . . 

Octavius Augustus White, M.D. . New York . . 



Life Member. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1893. 



Resigned 24 Nov., 1892. 



November 22, 1889 

Joseph James Little New York 

Ester Van Ysen Herrman (Mrs 

Henry). 

Oscar Kennett Lyle Brooklyn, L. I 

Charles Montgomery Vail . . . New York . 

Charles Winegar Crispell, M.D. Rondout . 

Edward Herbert Noyes .... New York . 

Theodore Frelinghuysen Reed . Spring Valley 



Life Member. 
Resigned 5 Jan., i8gl. 



December 13, 1889. 
Albert Ross Parsons Garden City, L. L 



January 8, 1890. 

Albert Austin Davis, M.D. . . . New York . 

Charles Augustus Schermerhorn New York . 

Eba Anderson Lawton (Mrs. New York . 

James M.). 

Henry Wyckoff Leroy .... New York . 



Resigned I Nov., 1893. 
Life Member. 

Resigned 7 Feb., 1895. 



January 24, 1890. 

Ja.mes Junius Goodwin New York . 

Augustine David Lawrence Jew- New York . 

ETT, D. D. 

Daniel Tompkins Stevens . . . New York . 



Life Member. 
Life Member, 



Roll of Membership. 



65 



Name. 
James Muncaster Brown 

Frederick Kelley Gaston 
John Franklin Plummer . 



February 14, 1830 

Residence 
. . . New York . 

. New York . 
. New York . 



Membership Ceased. 

Life Member. Died 19 
July, 1890. 

Resigned 31 Dec, 1894. 



March 14, 1890. 

HowLAND Pell New York . 

April 11, 1890. 

Gerald Napier Stanton .... New York . 

James Henry Smith New York . 

Allston Gerry New York . 



Life Member. 



Resigned 12 Dec, 1894. 



Killian Van Rensselaer 
Anne Hasbrouck (Miss) 
John Davison Flower . . 
Hamilton Rogers Fairfax 
George Arnold Hearn . 
Josiah Collins Pumpelly 



June 13, 1890. 



New York . 
New York . 
New York . 
New York . 
New York . 
New York . 



Resigned 31 Dec, 1S90. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1890. 
Life Member. 



November, 14, 1390. 

Theodore Wyckoff Welles, D.D. Paterson, N. J. 
Philip Randall Voorhees, . . . New York . . 
Abraham Van Wyck Van Vechten New York . . 



Life Member. 



January 7, 1891. 

William Rhinelander New York . 

John Jackson Riker New York . 

Richard Henry Greene, A.M., New York . 
LL. B. 

Horace Russell, A.B New York . 

WooLSEV Hopkins, M.D New York . 



Life Member, 1S94. 



Life Member. 



February 27, 1891. 

Mary Ann Hart (Mrs. Coleridge) New York . 
Carrie Allen Middlebrook (Miss) New York . 
Charles William Darling . . . Utica, N. Y. 
William Collins Whitney, A.M., New York . 
LL. D. 



Died 21 July, 1892. 
Resigned 31 Dec, 1892 
Resigned 9 June, 1892. 
Resigned 12 Jan., t893. 



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Name. Residence. 

Henry Day, A.B New York . 

Stephen Benton Elkins New York . 

WilliamGordonVer Planck, B.S. New York . 

Appleton Morgan New York . 

Lawrence Turnure New York . 

Eugene Augustus Hoffman, S.T.D. New York . 



Membership Ceased. 
Died 9 Jan., 1893. 

Retired 1891. 



March 27, 1891. 

James Marsland Lawton .... New York . 

John Alsop King New York . . . 

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt . . New York . . . 

April 24, 1891. 

Edward Myers West Farms . . 

William Paterson Perth Amboy, N.J. 

William Miller Este New York . . . 

Katharine Berry Di Zerega (Mrs. New York . . . 
John A.). 

June 5, 1891. 

Lewis Alfred Williams .... New York . . . 
Joseph Jermain Slocum New York . . . 



Life Member. Died 

Feb., 1895. 
Life Member. 
Resigned 29 Jan., 1892. 



20 



Resigned 31 Dec. 1892. 



November 13, 1891. 

Samuel Willard Bridgham . . . New York . 

Newland Maynard, D.D New York . 

Jacques Reich New York . 

Francis Guy Saltonstall . . . New York . 



Resigned 29 Oct., 1892. 
Resigned 9 Dec, 1893. 



December 11, 1891. 

Henry I5edlow Newport, R. L 

William Augustus Boyd .... New York . 
Adrian Carl Pickhardt .... New York . 



Retired 1892. 



Arthur Sandys 



January 8, 1892. 

. . . Allentown, Pa. 



February 12, 189£ 

Frederick William Vanderbilt New York . 
George Pelle\y, A.B., LL. B. . . New York . 
Eugene Lawrence New York . 



Life Member. 
Died 18 Feb., 1892. 
Died 17 Aug., 1894. 



Roll of Member ship. 



67 



February 26, 1892. 

Name. Residence. 

William Henry Harrison, A.M. . New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 
Died 25 March, 1892. 



March 11, 1892. 

Gilbert Ray Hawes, A.B., LL. B., . New York . 
James Cornelius Aikin New York . 

April 8, 1892. 

Alister Greene, A.B., LL. B., . . New York . 

John Henry Boynton New York . 

Thomas Egleston,A.M.,E.M.,LL.D. New York . 

April 22, 1892. 

Langdon Greenwood, A.M. . . . New York . 

Ferdinand Pinney Earle . . . New York . 

Lilly Jones Earle (Mrs. Ferdi- New York . 

nand p. 

Gilbert Smith Coddington . . . New York . 



Life Member, 1895. 



Died I April, 1894. 
Life Member. 



Life Member. 



May 13, 1892. 

WiLLlA.M Edward Ver Planck . . New York , 



David Gardiner , . . 
Francis Child Nicholas 



November 11, 1882. 



New York 
New York 



December 9, 1892. 

Edward Doubleday Harris . . . New York . . . 
Gabriel Grant, A.M., M.D. . . . New York . . . 
Andrew Hutchins Mickle Sal- Berkeley Springs, W.Va. 

TONSTALL.* 

Teunis Dimon Huntting .... Brooklyn . . . 



February 10, 1893. 

Bashford Dean, Ph.D New York . . 

William Watts Sherman .... New York . . 
Philip Rhinelander New York . . 

♦Formerly named Andrew Hutchins Mickle. 
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Life Member. 
Life Member. 



68 The Nevi York Genealogical and BiograpJiical Society. 

February 24, 1893. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

James Henry Van Gelder, A.M., New York . . . 
LL. D. 

March 10, 1893. 

LvMAN Rhoades New York . . . 

Narch S4. 1893. 

Bessie Thayer Sypher (Miss)* . . New York . . . 
Jasper Van Vleck New York . . . 

May 12, 1893. 

Edwin Francis Hyde New York . . . 

Richard John Leggat New York . . . 

Tobias Alexander Wright . . . New York . . . 

May 26, 1893. 

Lucas Brodhead Spring Station, Ky. 

Margaret Morris Norwood (Miss) New York . . . Life Member. 



July 18, 1893. 

Elizabeth Ward Doremus (Mrs. New York . . 

Charles A.). 

Francis Effingham Laimbeer . New York . . 

Samuel Putman Avery New York . . 

Stephen Samuel Haight .... West Farms . 

September 22, 1893. 

Rosell Lewellyn Richardson . New York . . 

Frederick Haviland New York . . 

Mary Mildred Williams (Miss) . Nyack . . . 

October 13, 1893. 

Isaac Hull Platt, M.D Lakewood, N. J. 

Thomas Edward Satterthwaite, New York . . 
M.U. 
•Married Charles C. Marsh. 



Resigned 31 May, 1894. 



Life Member. 
Resigned 17 Jan. 1894. 



Roll of Membership. 



69 



October 26, 1893. 

Name. Residence. 

Charles Wyllys Cass New York . . 

Richard Thurston Greene . . . New York . . 

Richard Kalish, M.D New York . . 



Membership Ceased. 



November 10, 1893. 

Alexander Crawford Chenowith New York . . . 
Hector Craig Fitz Randolph, M.A. New York . . . 

November 24, 1893. 

Morris Patterson Ferris ... New York . . . 

Frederick George Swan .... New York . . . 

Georgie Harrington Boyden St. New York . . . 

John (Mrs. Gamaliel C.) 

Ellen Hardin Walworth (Mrs. New York . . . 

Mansfield T.) 

Cyrus La Rue Munson, M.A., LL. B. Williamsport, Pa. 

December 8, 1893. 

William Monro Corwin .... Newark, N. J. 

John Edward Marsh New York . . . 

Andrew Carnegie New York . . 

William Rich Hutton New York . . . 



December 22, 1893. 

Theodore SuTRO, A. B., LL. B. . . New York . . 

Henry Graff Trevor New York . . 

Lucy Dubois Akerly (Miss) . . . Newburgh . . 



Life Member. 



January 4, 1894. 

Moore Langdon Bird, M.D. . . . New York . 

January 12, 1894. 

Alexander John Reid Brooklyn . 

Leonidas Coleman Williams . . New York . 
John Targee Sill New York . 



Life Member. 



William Adams Kissam 
George William Cocks 



January 17, 1894. 

. . . New York . . 
. . . Glen Cove, L. L 



Life Member. 



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Name. 
Charles Arthur Greene 



January 25, 1894. 

Residence. 
. . . Summit, N. J. 



Membership Ceased. 



February 9, 1894. 

WiLLiA.M Milne Grinnell, A.B. . New York . . 

Mary Wright WooTTON (Mrs.) . . New York . . 

William Fitch Dewey Toledo, O. 

Margaret Innis Young (Mrs. Wil- Poughkeepsie 

LIAM H.) 

Charles Frederick Chandler, New York . . 

Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., F.C.S. 

StANCLIFF Bazen Downes .... New York . . 



February 13, 1894. 

Catharine Jay Dyer New York . . 



Cornelia 

(Mrs.) 
Mary Close Purple (Miss) . . . 
Elizabeth Romaine McMillan 

Stanton (Mrs. John). 



New York 
New York 



. Life Member. 
. Life Member. 



March 9, 1894. 

Albert Crane New York . 

David Harris Underhill .... Brooklyn . 

Reba Bird Whitfield (Miss) . . New York . 

Nathaniel Augustus Boynton . . New York . 



Life Member. 



April 13, 1894. 



George Stedman COiMSTOCK . . . 
Katharine Searle Mac Cartney 
(Mrs. William H.). 



Mechanicsburgh, Pa. 
Wilkesbarre, Pa. 



April S7. 1894. 

Caleb Andrew Dver Orient, L. L . 

Frederick Aycrigg Pell, A.M. . New York . . 

Charles Crozat Converse . . . Highwood, N. J. 

WILLIA.M Russell Grace .... New York . . 

Thomas Lemuel James New York . . 

Charles Finney Cox New York . . 

John Reynolds Totten New York . . 

Edward Loudon Norton .... New York . . 



Roll of Membership. 71 

May 25, 1894. 

Name. Residence. Membership Ceased. 

Timothy MatlackChees.man, A.M., New York . . . 

M.D. 

Tho.mas Franklin Brownell, A.M. New York . . . 

Jennie Gardner Aycrigg (Miss) . New York . . . 

October 12. 1894. 

George Watkinson Colchester, Conn. Life Member. 

Frederick William B.\ilev . . New Haven, Conn. 

Frank Tracy Robinson (Mrs.) . . New York . . . 

Francis Hartman Markoe, M.D. . New York . . . 

Martha Mallery Homan (Mrs. Greenport, L. I. . 
George W.) 

William Outis Allison New York . 

Robert McAllister Lloyd . . . New Y'ork . 

Henry Rutgers Remson Coles . Huntington, L 

Fulton Paul Hudson . . 

Harold Eldredge Spencer . . Tarrytown . 

November 9, 1894. 

BowEN Whiting Pierson .... New York . 
Clarence Aubrey Rundall . . . Brewster 
Ha.milton Bullock To.mpkins . . New York . 



November 23, 1S94. 

Arthur McMasters Goadby . . New York . . . 

John Cornell (Rev.) Washington, D. C. 

James Hill Townsend Sing Sing, N. Y. 

Sarah Whitlock Bonnett Pen- Elizabeth, N. J. . 
NELL (Mrs. George C.) 

December S8, 1894. 

Tho.mas Whittaker New York . . . Life Member. 

Meletiah Everett Dwight, M.D. Plainfield, N. J. . Life Member. 

Mary Elizabeth Perkins (Miss) . Norwich, Conn. . 

Theodore Hoe Mead New York . . . 



January 25, 1895. 

Henry Stanton New York . . . 

Edward Clinton Lee Philadelphia, Pa. 

Ellen M. Dunlap Hopkins (Mrs.) New York . . . 



Tft* New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 



Kam£. Rxsisexcx. 

JOHX Henry Stakix New York . . 

Fbjlsces Chester White Hartley, New York . . 

(Mrs. MARCELLrs). 

Hexrt Hardwicke New York . . 



Cuisst). 



M&reh 8, 1895. 



Levaxtia White Cox Boardman New York . 

(Mrs. Lakdsdale) 
Elizabeth Moore Bowros (Mrs. Sing Sing . 

Heksy S.) 
Alice Jacksos Bradford (Mrs. New York . 

Nathaxiel G., jr.) 
William Decattr Parsons . . . New York . 
Elizabeth Remses (Miss) .... New York . 
Katharine Euphemla Turnbull New York . 

(Miss) 

Henry Hobart Vail 

WiLLLAM Watts Jones Warren 
De Witt Clinton Weld, Jr. . . . 

AXXA RaTHBONE CHEESEBOROrGH 

Wildey (Mas. Pierre W.) 

Charles Burr Todd 

Paul Richard Brown, M.D. . . . 



New York . . 

New York . . 

New York . . 

New York . . 

Redding, Conn. 
U. S. aT . . . 



Life Member. 



INDEX OF nEHBERS. 



Adams, Charles Heury, 62 
Adriance, John, o-t 
Aikin, James Cornelius, 67 
Akerly, Lucy Dnbois, 69 
Allen, William Eoyce, 58 
Allison, William Cutis, 71 
Andrews, William Loring, 57 
Appleton, Daniel, 60 
Appleton, Edward Dale, 61 
Appleton, William Worthen, 60 
Arnold, Benjamin Greene, 56 
Arnold, Edmund Samuel Foster, 59 
Arthur, Henry Hathorn, 63 
Astor, William Waldorf, 58 
Austin, William, 59 
Avery, Samuel Putman, 68 
Aj^crigg, Jennie Gardner, 71 

Baetjer, Catharine Komana Marsig- 

lia, 64 
Bagg, Matthew Darbyshire, 51 
Bailey, Frederick William, 71 
Baker, Seymour Augustus, 49 
Bancroft, John Milton, 49 
Banta, Theodore Melvin, 60 
Barlow, Samuel Bancroft, 49 
Bartow, Evelyn Pierrepont, 50 
Bartow, Morey Hale, 54 
Bedlow, Henry, 66 
Beekman, George Crawford, 62 
Bell, Samuel Peters, 54 
Benedict, Henry Marvin, 49 
Bergh, Henry, 61 
Betts, Beverly Robinson, 52 
Bill, Ledyard", 49 
Bird, Moore Langdon, 69 

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Bixby, Eobert Forsyth, 58 
Blake, Homer Crane, 56 
Bleecker, Theophylact Bache, Jr., 60 
Boardman, Levantia White Cox, 72 
Bolles, Timothy Dix, 61 
Bowen, Clarence Wiuthrop, 69 
Bowne, Richard Hartshome, 53 
Brown, Joseph Outerbridge, 53 
Bowron, Elizabeth Moore, 72 
Boyd, William Augustus, 66 
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjarth, 63 
Boyuton, John Henry, 67 
Boynton, Nathaniel Augustus, 70 
Bradford, Alice Jackson, 72 
Brainerd, Cephas, 62 
Braman, Edward, 60 
Brasher, Lewis B., 54 
Brevoort, James Carson, 50 
Brewster, George H.. 55 
Bridgham, Samuel Willard, 50 
Brockway, Asahel Norton, 56 
Brodhead, Lucas, 68 
Brooks, Arthur, 63 
Brown, James Muncaster, 65 
Brown, Paul Richard, 73 
Brownell, Thomas Franklin, 71 
Buckley, John, Jr. , 54 
Buckley, Joseph Edmund, 53 
Burhans, Samuel, Jr., 57 
Burnett, Henry Lawrence, 63 
Butler, George Henry, 56 

Carhart, Amory Sibley, 58 
Carnegie, Andrew, 69 
Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland, 58 
Casey, Thomas Lincoln, 60 



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Cass, Charles Wyllys, 69 
Chandler, Charles Frederick, 70 
Cheesman, Timothy Matlack, 71 
Chenowith, Alexander Crawford, G9 
Claiborne, John Herbert, 63 
Clark, Charles Finney, CI 
Clarke, Bayard, Jr., 57 
Clarkson, Floyd, 61 
Clarkson, Matthcv,-, 50 
Clarkson, William, 50 
Clearwater, Alphonso Trnmpbour, 

62 
Cocks, George William, 69 
Coddington, Gilbert Smith, 67 
Coggeshall, Henry G., 52 
Cogswell, William Lambert, 51 
Coles, Henry Katgers Remson, 71 
Coles, Oliver Edward, 58 
Coles, William Franklin, 50 
Conkling, Alfred Ronald, 61 
Constant, Samuel Victor, 63 
Converse, Charles Crozat, 70 
Comstock, George Stedman, 70 
Coombes, Richard Carman, 55 
Cornell, George Frederick, 62 
Cornell, John, 71 
Cornell, Thomas Clapp, 60 
Corwin, William Monro, 69 
Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 56 
Couch, Franklin, 59 
Cox, Charles Finney, 70 
Coykendall, Samuel Decker, 62 
Crane, Albert, 70 
Crane, James E., 58 
Crispell. Charles Winegar, 64 
Cromwell, Charles Thorn, 53 
Cruger, Stephen Van Rensselaer, 61 
Cutting, Walter Livingston, 51 
Cuyler, Cornelius Cornelissen, 62 



Davies, William Gilbert, 61 

Davis, Albert Austin, 64 

Dawson, Charles Carroll, 55 

Day, Henry, 66 

Dean, Bashford, 67 

De Forest, Henry, 52 

Delafleld, Maturin Livingston, 54 

De Lancey, Edward Floyd, 50 

Dewey, William Fitch, 70 

De Witt, George Gosman, 63 

di Zerega, Katharine Berry, 66 

di Navarro, Jose Francis, 61 

Dodge, William Earl, 62 

Doremus, Elizabeth Ward, 68 

Doty, Ethan Allen, 53 

Downes, Stancliff Bazen, 70 

Drowne, Henry Thayer, 55 

Dubois, William Mason, 62 

Dumont, Robert S., 51 

Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge, 49 

Dwight, Meletiah Everett, 71 

Dyer, Caleb Andrew, 70 

Dyer, Cornelia Catharine Jay, 70 



Earle, Ferdinand Pinney, 67 
Earle, Lilly Jones, 67 
Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamil- 
ton, 61 
Edsall, Thomas Henry, 57 
Eliot, Ellsworth, 50 
Egleston, Thomas, 67 
Elkins, Stephen Benton, 65 
Emmett, Bache McEvers, 54 
Emmett, Thomas Addis, 53 
Este, AVilliam Miller, 66 
Eustice. John Lawrence, 54 
Evans, Thomas Grier, 58 



Darling, Charles William, 65 
D'Aalte, Frank, 58 



Fairfax, Hamilton Rogers, 65 
Fargo, James Congdell, 62 
Felt, Willard L., 49 



Index of Members. 



77 



Ferris, Floyd, 62 
Ferris, Morris Patterson, 69 
Field, Benjamin Hazard, 59 
Fitch, John, 58 
Fletcher, Thomas Asa, 59 
Flower, John Davison, 65 
Foster, Frederick De Peyster, 64 
Fowler, Edward Payson, 49 
Fowler, Robert Ludlow, 64 
Fowler, Thomas Powell, 61 



Gardiner, David, 67 
Gardner, Henry M., Jr., 49 
Gaston, Frederick Kelley, 65 
Gerry, Allston, 65 
Gerry, Elbridge Thomas, 59 
Gibson, James Ren wick, Jr., 60 
Goadby, Arthur McMasters, 71 
Goodwin, James Junius, 64 
Grace, William Russell, 70 
Grant, Gabriel, 67 
Grant, Seth Hastings, 49 
Greene, Alister, 67 
Greene, Charles Arthur, 70 
Greene, George Sears, 49 
Greene, Richard Henry, 65 
Greene, Richard Thurston, 69 
Greenwood, Isaac John, 54 
Greenwood, Langdon, 67 
Grinnell, William Milne, 70 
Guatier, John Stagg, 50 

Haight, Stephen Samnel, 68 
Haines, John Peter, 64 
Hale, Robert Sanford, 53 
Hall, Edwards, 58 
Halsey, George Albert, 55 
Hand, Clifford Augustus, 51 
Hardwicke, Henry, 73 
Harjier, William Walton, 50 
Harris, Edward Doubleday, 67 



Harrison, William Henry, 67 
Hart, Mary Ann. 65 
Hartley, Frances Chester White, 73 
Hasbrouck, Anne, 65 
Hasell, Bentley Douglas, 55 
Hatch, Roswell Daniel, 51 
Havens, Charles Gerard, 52 
Haviland, Frederick, 68 
Hawes, Gilbert Ray, 67 
Hearn, George Arnold, 65 
Hecker, John N., 55 
Herrman, Ester Van Ysen, 64 
Hicks, Benjamin Doughty, 56, 60 
Hoagland, Cornelins Nevius, 64 
Hoes, Roswell Randall, 60 
Hoffmann, Eugene Augustus, 66 
Holcombe, William Frederic, 49 
Holton, David Parsons, 49 
Holton, Francis K. Forward, 49 
Homan, Martha Mallery, 71 
Hopkins, Ellen M. Dunlap, 71 
Hopkins. Woolsey Rogers, 63 
Hopkins, Woolsey, 65 
Hopson, Francis Johnstone, 63 
Houseman, Charles H., 56 
Howland, Benjamin Jenkins, 50 
Humphreys, Frederick, 51 
Huntington, Collis Potter, 62 
Hnntting, Tennis Dimon, 67 
Hurry, Edmund Abdy, 53 
Hustace, Francis, 56 
Hntton, William Rich, 69 
Hyde, Edwin Francis, 68 
Hyde, Frederick Erastus, 59 

Ingraham, George Landon, 54 
Ireland, John Busteed, 61 

James. Thomas Lemuel, 70 
Jay, Elizabeth Clarksou, 50 
Jay, John, 58 



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Jesup, Morris Ketchnm, 63 
Jewett, Angustine David Lawrence, 

64 
Johnson, Samuel William, 53 
Johnson, Woolsey, 50 
Jones, John Divine, 53 



Kalish, Richard, 09 
Kellogg, Charles. 60 
Kelly, William, 50 
Ketcham, Edgar, 54- 
Ketcham, William Ezra. Qi 
Ketcham, William Piatt. G3 
Kidder, Augustus Sydney, 62 
King, James Thomas, 52 
King, John Alsop, 06 
King, Rufns, 54 
Kinnear, Beverly Oliver, 62 
Kissam, William Adams, 61) 
Knox, Alexander, 49 



Laimbeer, Francis Effingham, OS 
Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade Nash, 

57 
Lamberton, Charles Lytle, 62 
Latting, John Jordan, 50 
Lawrence, Eugene, 66 
Lawrence, Isaac, 58 
Lawton, Eba Anderson, 64 
Lawton, James Marsland, 06 
Leaming, James Koseburgh, 63 
Lee, David Bradley, 61 
Lee, Edward Clinton, 71 
Lee, William Henry, 57 
Leggat, Richard John, 68 
Leroy, Henry Wyckoff, 64 
Little, Joseph James, 64 
Livingston, Charles Lincoln, 52 
Livingston, Charles Ludlow, 53 
Livingston, Johnston, 52 



Lloyd, Herbert De Nyse, 62 
Lloyd, Robert McAllister, 71 
Ludlow, Edward Livingston, 58 
Lyle, Oscar Kennett, 64 



MacCartney, Katharine Searle, 70 
Maclay, Isaac Walker, 55 
Macy, Sylvanns Jenkins, 49 
Mallory, George Read, 52 
Man, Alrick Hubbel, 57 
Markoe, Francis Hartman, 71 
Marquand, Henry Gurdon, 63 
Marsh, John Edward, 69 
Marshall, Edward Ohauncey, 49 
Marshall, Jonathan, 50 
Martin, Edmund Philo, 51 
Mather, Margaret Herbert, 61 
Maynard, Newland, 66 
Mead, Theodore Hoe, 71 
Merritt, Douglas, 62 
Middlebrook, Carrie Allen, 65 
Montgomery, William E., 63 
Moore, Charles Benjamin, 50 
Moore, William Henry Helme, 53 
Morgan, Appleton, 66 
Morgan, John Pierpont, 01 
Morris, Stuyvesant Fish, 53 
Morton, Levi Parsons, 61 
Mulford, William Remsen, 57 
Munsell. Joel, 51 
Munson, Cyrus La Rue, 69 
Myers, Edward, 66 
Myers, Theodorus Bailey, 52 



Nichol, Edward Holland, 51 
Nichol, Henry, 51 
Nicholas, Francis Child, 67 
Norton, Edward London, 70 
Norwood, Margaret Morris, 68 
Noyes, Edgar Herbert, 64 



Index of Members. 



79 



O'Callahan, Edmund Bailey, 52 
Owen, Emilie Ketchnm Piatt, 62 



Paine, Henry Delevan, 49 
Palmer, James Woolsey, Jr. , 55 
Parker, Cortlandt, 62 
Parsons, Albert Boss, 64 
Parsons, William Decatnr, 72 
Paterson, William, 66 
Paul, Fulton, 71 
Peabody, George 11., 58 
Pell, Frederick Aycrigg, 70 
Pell, Howland, 63 
Pell, John Henry, 58 
Pellew, George, 66 
Pennell, Sarah Whitlock Bonnett, 71 
Perkins, Mary Elizabeth, 71 
Petty, Joseph Henry, 50 
Phoenix, Stephen Whitney, 54 
Pickhardt, Adrian Carl, 66 
Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 50 
Pierson, Bowen Whiting, 71 
Piatt, Isaac Hull, 68 
Plummer, John Franklin, 65 
Poillon, William, 55 
Potter, Orlando Bronson, 57 
Pruyn, John Van Schaick Lansing, 

57 
Pnmpelly, Josiah Collins, 65 
Purdy, Alfred Edgar Martindale, 51 
Pnrdy, Jacob Harsen, 56 
Purple, Edward Ruthven, 51 
Purijle, Mary Close, 70 
Purple, Samuel Smith, 49 

Quackinbush, James Westervelt, 55 

Randolph, Hector Craig Fitz, 69 

Read, John Meredith, 59 

Reed, Caroline Gallup, 57 

Reed, Theodore Frelinghuysen, 64 



Reich, Jacques, 66 
Reid, Alexander John, 69 
Remsen, Elizabeth, 73 
Reynolds, Charles Trinder, 50 
Reynolds, William Adams, 50 
Rhinelander, Philip, 67 
Rhinelander, William, 65 
Rhoades, Lyman, 56, 68 
Rhodes, Seymour, 57 
Rice, Allen Thorndyke, 59 
Richardson, Resell Lewellyn, 68 
Riker, John Jackson, 65 
Robinson, Frank Tracy (Mrs.), 71 
Robinson, William Pitt, 60 
Romeyn, Hiram Radcliff, 63 
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 66 
Roosevelt, Theodore, 58 
Rundall, Clarence Aubrey, 71 
Russell, Horace, 65 
Rutter, Thomas, 61 



Sage, Russell, 61 
Salter, Abram Oldrin, 49 
Saltonstall, Andrew H u t c h i n s 

Mickle, 67 
Saltonstall, Francis Guy, 66 
Sandys, Arthur, 66 
Sanford, Elliot, 50 
Satterthaite, Thomas Edward, 68 
Schell, Robert, 63 
Schermerhorn, Charles Augustus, 64 
Schieffelin, Eugene, 58 
Schoonmaker, Aurelia Davis, 63 
Schuyler, George Washington, 58 
Schuyler, Montgomery Roosevelt, 55 
Schuyler, Spencer D., 54 
Schuyler, William David, 55 
Scudder, Henry Joel, 53 
Sedgwick, Jay, 57 
Seward, Frederick William, 63 
Shear, Leroy Newcomb (Mrs.), 51 



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Shepard, Aunie Elizabetli Boutecou, 

57 
Sherman, William Watts, 07 
Shrady, Joim, 5G 
Sill, John Targee, 69 
Slocum, Joseph Jermain, GG 
Smith, Alexander Mackay, 61 
Smith, Cornelius Bishop, 62 
Smith, Edmund Thomas, 52 
Smitli, George Ilntchiuson, G2 
Smith, Isaac Parish, 59 
Smith, Isaac Townsend, 61 
Smith, James Henry, 65 
Smith, Philip Sherwood, 63 
Spencer, Harold Eldredge, 71 
Stafford, Marshall Paddock, 54 
Stafford, Martin Hawley, 49 
Stanton, Elizabeth Romaine McMil- 
lan, 70 
Stanton, Gerald Napier, 65 
Stanton, Henry, 71 
Starin, John Henry, 72 
Stevens, Byam Kirby, 62 
Stevens, Daniel Tompkins, 64 
Stevens, Martha Bayard Dodd, 59 
Stevens, Morris Decker, 58 
Stewart, Mary Macrae, 62 
Stiles, Henry Reed, 49 
Stiles, Samuel Edward, 49 
Stillwell, John Edwin, 61 
St. John, Georgie Harrington Boy- 
den, 69 
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 64 
Strong, Charles Edward, 54 
Stryker, William Scndder, 62 
Stuart, Inglis, 63 
Sutphen, John Schnremnn, 62 
Sntro, Theodore, 69 
Swan, Benjamin Lincoln, 52 
Swan, Frederick George, 69 
Swan, Otis Dwight, 53 
Swartwout, Satterlee, G3 
Sypher, Bessie Thayer, 68 



Tallmadge, Frederick Samuel, 62 
Thompson, Frederick Diodati, 56 
Tillou, Francis, 55 
Todd, Charles Bnrr, 72 
Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock, 71 
Tooker, Gideon Lee, 56 
Totten, John Reynolds, 70 
Townsend, James Hill, 71 
Townsend, Janet Van Rensselaer, 62 
Townsend, Randolph Wanton, 57 
Townsend, Solomon, 55 
Trenchard, Edward, 61 
Trevor, Henry Graff, 69 
Tuckerman, Bayard, 61 
Tuckerman, Walter Carey, 56 
Tnrnbull, Katharine Euphemia, 72 
Tnrnure Lawrence, 66 
Tuttle, George Frederick, 51 



Underbill, Abraham Sutton, 54 
Underhill, David Harris, 70 



Vail, Charles Montgomery, 64 
Vail, Henry Hobart, 72 
Van Auken, Jerre A., 63 
Vandcrbilt, Cornelius, 57 
Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 66 
Vauderpool, Samuel Oakley, 59 
Van Gelder, James Henry, 68 
Van Norden, Warner, 64 
Van Rensselaer, Philip Livingston, 

52 
Van Siclen, George West, 64 
Van Vechten, Abraham Van W\'ck, 

65 
Van Vlcck, Jasper, 68 
Van Voorhis, Elias William, 57 
Van Vorst, Hooper Gumming, 61 
Van Wagenen, Gerrit Hubert, 55 
Viele, Egbert Lodevickers, 54 
Vermont, Edgar De Valconrt, 60 



Index of Members. 



81 



Ver Planck, William Edward, 67 
Ver Planck, William Gordon, 66 
Von Horrum-Schramm, Raimnnd, 

60 
Voorhees, Philip Randall, 65 

Waddell, William Coventry Henry, 

50 
Wakeman, Abram 52 
Wales, Salem Howe, 61 
Walworth, illUen Hardin, 69 
Ward, John, 55, 61 
Warner, Louis F., 50 
Warren, William Watts Jones, 72 
Watkinson, George, 71 
Weeks, John Abeel, 52 
Weld, De Witt Clinton, Jr., 72 
Welles, Theodore Wyckoff, 65 
Wells, Thomas Lawrence, 54 
Wendell, Jacob, 61 
White, John Silas, 60 
White, Octavns Augustus, 64 



White, William Thomas, 59 
Whitfield, Reba Bird, 70 
Whitney, William Collins, 65 
Whittaker, Thomas, 71 
Wildey, Anna Rathbone Cheesebor- 

ongh, 72 
Willets, Robert. 51 
Williams, Leighton, 58 
Williams, Leonidas Coleman, 69 
Williams, Lewis Alfred, 66 
Williams, Mary Mildred, 68 
Williams, Othniel S., 50 
Wilson, James Grant, 67 
Winslow, Almerin Henry, 51 
Winslow, Edward Francis, 62 
Wood, Isaac Francis, 50 
Wootton, Mary Wright, 70 
Wright, Tobias Alexander, 68 

Youmans, Katharine Newton, 61 
Young, Margaret Innis, 70 
Youngs, Thomas Ferdinand, 52 



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